County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
St. Joseph County, MI
At 60,939 residents, St. Joseph County is a large county in Michigan. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
St. Joseph County, MI reported 128 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. Joseph County, MI agencies reported 78 violent and 212 property offenses. That equals about 128 violent and 348 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
78 violent offenses
128/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for St. Joseph County, MI
Position in the state cohort
St. Joseph County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Michigan counties
At 128.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. Joseph County ranks 17 of 67 — above 50 of the 66 other Michigan counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +67.0% 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.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 52.8% of reported property offenses in St. Joseph County, against a cohort median of 72.9%. The remainder is burglary (65) and motor vehicle theft (35). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 134.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 128.0 in 2024 (-4.9%). The highest observed value was 144.4 in 2022 and the lowest 108.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a 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 · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
212
Burglary
65
Larceny-Theft
112
Motor Vehicle Theft
35
Arson
2
Violent Crime
78
Murder
1
Rape
15
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
61
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.