County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Mecosta County, MI
Mecosta County (39,714 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Michigan. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Mecosta County, MI reported 252 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mecosta County, MI agencies reported 100 violent and 248 property offenses. That equals about 252 violent and 625 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
100 violent offenses
252/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Mecosta County, MI
Position in the state cohort
Mecosta County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan counties
At 251.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mecosta County ranks 2 of 67 — above 65 of the 66 other Michigan counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +228.6% 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 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 181.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 251.8 in 2024 (+38.9%). The highest observed value was 251.8 in 2024 and the lowest 32.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 28.7% of the 348 Part I offenses reported in Mecosta County for 2024, against a median of 23.9% across comparable Michigan counties — a gap of 4.8 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 80.6% of reported property offenses in Mecosta County, against a cohort median of 72.6%. The remainder is burglary (37) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
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
248
Burglary
37
Larceny-Theft
200
Motor Vehicle Theft
11
Arson
3
Violent Crime
100
Murder
1
Rape
11
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
87
Reporting Agency
Mecosta County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Mecosta County's crime figures on this page originate from Mecosta 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
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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.