Crime Rate in Grand Haven: How Does It Compare?

Objective FBI crime statistics, compared to similar-size Michigan cities — reported offenses per 100,000 residents.

FBI collection year 2024 · retrieved from the FBI June 2026 · source and method

In 2024, the most common reported offenses in Grand Haven were larceny / theft (827 per 100,000 residents) and aggravated assault (182 per 100,000 residents), per FBI Uniform Crime Reporting — with a comparison to similar-size Michigan cities below.

No homicides were reported in 2024.

Offense typePer 100k residents
Larceny / theft827
Aggravated assault182
Motor-vehicle theft82
Rape27
Burglary27
Arson9
Homicide0
Robbery0

How Grand Haven compares to similar-size Michigan cities

CityPopulationViolent /100kProperty /100k
Ionia11,901185555
East Grand Rapids11,442611,084
Grand Haven10,997209946
Cadillac10,4494692,488
Muskegon Heights9,7851,0732,882

Reported offenses per 100,000 residents, Grand Haven Police Department, FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (2024). Comparison cities are the nearest in population, ordered by size — not ranked by crime. Crime is reported at the jurisdiction level and varies block to block within any community.

Where these numbers come from

  • Source: the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program, as reported by the Grand Haven Police Department for the 2024 collection year. Retrieved June 2026.
  • Denominator: every rate on this page is the reported count divided by 10,997 residents — the population the FBI publishes for this agency's jurisdiction in 2024 — then multiplied by 100,000. The underlying counts are 23 violent and 104 property offenses. Census population estimates for the same place differ from the FBI's by a small margin, so a rate computed from Census figures will not match this one exactly.
  • Limits: agencies report voluntarily and their record-keeping practices differ, so comparisons between places are approximate. These are offenses reported to police — not convictions, and not incidents that went unreported. Figures cover the agency's whole jurisdiction and say nothing about any particular street or address.
  • What we don't do: we publish these counts as data and never use them to rank, score or recommend places, and never to describe who lives anywhere.

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