Crime in Big Rapids, Michigan
Major crime in Big Rapids is 25% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 17% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.4% 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 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Big Rapids 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 Big Rapids
The middle half of Big Rapids residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 52 and 196; the typical (median) resident's is 98. The citywide figure (125) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5012.6%
- 50–10042.0%
- 100–20024.0%
- 200–40021.3%
- 400+0.0%
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 5.4% 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.
Big Rapids against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
380 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Big Rapids; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Big Rapids has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Evart (18 mi), is 47% below Big Rapids's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Big Rapids
What are the most common crimes in Big Rapids?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 87 a year), aggravated assault (about 36 a year) and shoplifting (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 2.8 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. Big Rapids's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Big Rapids 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: 9,516. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Big Rapids, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/big-rapids
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Evart18 mi67
- Fremont28 mi91
- Clare36 mi62
- Mount Pleasant36 mi101
- Greenville38 mi65
- Cadillac38 mi117
- Sparta39 mi52
- Rockford40 mi46