County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Oceana County, MI
Oceana County (26,659 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Michigan. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Oceana County, MI reported 210 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oceana County, MI agencies reported 56 violent and 136 property offenses. That equals about 210 violent and 510 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
56 violent offenses
210/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Oceana County, MI
Position in the state cohort
Oceana County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan counties
At 210.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oceana County ranks 6 of 67 — above 61 of the 66 other Michigan counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +174.1% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 29.2% of the 192 Part I offenses reported in Oceana County for 2024, against a median of 23.9% across comparable Michigan counties — a gap of 5.2 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 217.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 210.1 in 2024 (-3.4%). The highest observed value was 232.6 in 2021 and the lowest 180.1 in 2022. 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
136
Burglary
25
Larceny-Theft
99
Motor Vehicle Theft
12
Arson
0
Violent Crime
56
Murder
1
Rape
15
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
38
Reporting Agency
Oceana County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Oceana County's crime figures on this page originate from Oceana 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 Oceana County in population. Their populations run from 25,091 to 26,054, against 26,659 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.