Crime in Battle Creek, Michigan
Major crime in Battle Creek is 2.1 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.2 times for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 3.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Battle Creek for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Battle Creek
The middle half of Battle Creek residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 129 and 263; the typical (median) resident's is 185.
- 0–509.1%
- 50–10014.8%
- 100–20031.9%
- 200–40039.8%
- 400+4.4%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Lowest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.4% in a year; across Michigan it fell 6.1%
Change in expected crimes, with Michigan as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Battle Creek against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
28 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Battle Creek; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Battle Creek has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Springfield (3 mi), is 32% below Battle Creek's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Battle Creek
What are the most common crimes in Battle Creek?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 506 a year), aggravated assault (about 432 a year) and shoplifting (about 323 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.9 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Battle Creek's figures add up its 43 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Battle Creek's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 75.4% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 52,388. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Battle Creek, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/battle-creek
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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