Crime in Brighton, Michigan
Major crime in Brighton is 19% below the U.S. rate per resident: 72% lower for persons crimes and 7% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 2.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Brighton 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 Brighton
The middle half of Brighton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 11 and 92; the typical (median) resident's is 15. The citywide figure (81) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5053.1%
- 50–10025.1%
- 100–20011.1%
- 200–40010.7%
- 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 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.
Brighton against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
778 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brighton; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Brighton 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, Whitmore Lake (7 mi), is 62% below Brighton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Brighton
What are the most common crimes in Brighton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 56 a year), other larceny (about 24 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 17 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.2 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. Brighton's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Brighton 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: 8,140. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brighton, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/brighton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Whitmore Lake7 mi31
- South Lyon8 mi21
- Howell10 mi38
- Milford10 mi55
- Wixom13 mi56
- Dexter14 mi68
- Wolverine Lake15 mi19
- Walled Lake16 mi40