County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Kalkaska County, MI
Kalkaska County (17,939 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Michigan. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Kalkaska County, MI reported 329 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Kalkaska County, MI agencies reported 59 violent and 181 property offenses. That equals about 329 violent and 1009 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
59 violent offenses
329/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Kalkaska County, MI
Position in the state cohort
Kalkaska County reported the highest violent-crime rate among comparable Michigan counties
At 328.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Kalkaska County ranks 1 of 67 — above 66 of the 66 other Michigan counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +329.2% against the cohort median of 76.6. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 312.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 328.9 in 2024 (+5.4%). The highest observed value was 384.6 in 2022 and the lowest 172.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
181
Burglary
24
Larceny-Theft
130
Motor Vehicle Theft
27
Arson
1
Violent Crime
59
Murder
0
Rape
13
Robbery
0
Aggravated Assault
46
Reporting Agency
Kalkaska County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Kalkaska County's crime figures on this page originate from Kalkaska County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Counties in Michigan
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Michigan counties closest to Kalkaska County in population. Their populations run from 14,380 to 20,770, against 17,939 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.