Crime in Bessemer, Michigan
Major crime in Bessemer is 68% below the U.S. rate per resident: 33% lower for persons crimes and 76% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% 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 2.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bessemer for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Bessemer
Bessemer is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 30; the middle half of residents live where it is between 29 and 38.
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- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
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Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.6% 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.
Bessemer against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,448 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bessemer; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bessemer has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ironwood (6 mi), is 6% below Bessemer's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bessemer
What are the most common crimes in Bessemer?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 4 a year), aggravated assault (about 3 a year) and shoplifting (about 2 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.4 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. Bessemer's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bessemer has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 2,276. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bessemer, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/bessemer
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