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Michigan Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Michigan cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
102
Supported Michigan cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Saginaw
Violent Crime has increased 4% since 2021.
18.2 / 1k
2 Detroit
Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021.
15.3 / 1k
3 Lansing
Violent Crime has declined 11% since 2021.
11.8 / 1k
4 Kalamazoo
Violent Crime has declined 19% since 2021.
11.8 / 1k
5 Battle Creek
Violent Crime has increased 14% since 2021.
10.4 / 1k
6 Flint
Violent Crime has increased 21% since 2021.
10.4 / 1k
7 Jackson
Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021.
10.2 / 1k
8 Inkster
Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021.
9.8 / 1k
9 Pontiac
Violent Crime has declined 12% since 2021.
8.9 / 1k
10 Grand Rapids
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
8.7 / 1k
11 Romulus
Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021.
8.4 / 1k
12 Taylor
Violent Crime has increased 42% since 2021.
7.4 / 1k
13 Lincoln Park
Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021.
6.3 / 1k
14 Ypsilanti
Violent Crime has declined 55% since 2021.
6.3 / 1k
15 Eastpointe
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
6.2 / 1k
16 Harper Woods
Violent Crime has declined 27% since 2021.
6.1 / 1k
17 Mount Morris
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
5.9 / 1k
18 Niles
Violent Crime has declined 29% since 2021.
5.7 / 1k
19 Wayne
Violent Crime has declined 34% since 2021.
5.7 / 1k
20 Roseville
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
5.4 / 1k
21 Bay City
Violent Crime has declined 25% since 2021.
5.4 / 1k
22 Port Huron
Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021.
5.3 / 1k
23 Warren
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
5.0 / 1k
24 Wyoming
Violent Crime has declined 19% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
25 Hamtramck
Violent Crime has declined 45% since 2021.
4.8 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Michigan cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.