Crime Rate in Grand Rapids: 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 Rapids were larceny / theft (1,829 per 100,000 residents) and aggravated assault (698 per 100,000 residents), per FBI Uniform Crime Reporting — with a comparison to similar-size Michigan cities below.
For perspective, homicide — the most serious crime — was reported at about 0.006% of the population, roughly 1 in 17,000 residents.
| Offense type | Per 100k residents |
|---|---|
| Larceny / theft | 1,829 |
| Aggravated assault | 698 |
| Motor-vehicle theft | 384 |
| Burglary | 267 |
| Robbery | 116 |
| Rape | 90 |
| Arson | 26 |
| Homicide | 6 |
How Grand Rapids compares to similar-size Michigan cities
| City | Population | Violent /100k | Property /100k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grand Rapids | 195,908 | 910 | 2,506 |
| Warren | 135,845 | 543 | 1,577 |
| Sterling Heights | 133,054 | 229 | 1,048 |
| Ann Arbor | 118,025 | 311 | 1,741 |
| Lansing | 111,964 | 1,348 | 2,535 |
Reported offenses per 100,000 residents, Grand Rapids 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 Rapids Police Department for the 2024 collection year. Retrieved June 2026.
- Denominator: every rate on this page is the reported count divided by 195,908 residents — the population the FBI publishes for this agency's jurisdiction in 2024 — then multiplied by 100,000. The underlying counts are 1,783 violent and 4,910 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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