Crime Rate in Saugatuck: 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 Saugatuck were larceny / theft (348 per 100,000 residents) and burglary (87 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 type | Per 100k residents |
|---|---|
| Larceny / theft | 348 |
| Burglary | 87 |
| Homicide | 0 |
| Rape | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated assault | 0 |
| Motor-vehicle theft | 0 |
| Arson | 0 |
How Saugatuck compares to similar-size Michigan cities
| City | Population | Violent /100k | Property /100k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reed City | 2,532 | 474 | 1,659 |
| Montague | 2,417 | 0 | 414 |
| Saugatuck | 2,301 | 0 | 435 |
| Shelby | 2,177 | 46 | 413 |
| Hart | 2,055 | 438 | 3,844 |
Reported offenses per 100,000 residents, Saugatuck-Douglas 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 Saugatuck-Douglas Police Department for the 2024 collection year. Retrieved June 2026.
- Denominator: every rate on this page is the reported count divided by 2,301 residents — the population the FBI publishes for this agency's jurisdiction in 2024 — then multiplied by 100,000. The underlying counts are 0 violent and 10 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. Saugatuck is a small jurisdiction (2,301 residents), where a single additional reported offense moves the per-100,000 rate sharply — read a single year here as a rough indication, not a precise measure.
- 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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