County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
Ottawa County, MI
At 296,200 residents, Ottawa County is a very large county in Michigan. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Ottawa County, MI reported 177 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ottawa County, MI agencies reported 524 violent and 1,714 property offenses. That equals about 177 violent and 579 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
524 violent offenses
177/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Ottawa County, MI
Position in the state cohort
Ottawa County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan counties
At 176.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ottawa County ranks 9 of 67 — above 58 of the 66 other Michigan counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +130.9% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 197.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 176.9 in 2024 (-10.6%). The highest observed value was 201.9 in 2022 and the lowest 176.9 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · very large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
1,714
Burglary
226
Larceny-Theft
1,366
Motor Vehicle Theft
122
Arson
8
Violent Crime
524
Murder
2
Rape
131
Robbery
14
Aggravated Assault
377
Reporting Agency
Ottawa County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Ottawa County's crime figures on this page originate from Ottawa 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 Ottawa County in population. Their populations run from 193,866 to 406,211, against 296,200 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.