Crime in Byron Center, Michigan
Major crime in Byron Center is 71% below the U.S. rate per resident: 61% lower for persons crimes and 73% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.9% 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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No crime type in Byron Center is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Byron Center 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
Neighborhoods in Byron Center
Byron Center 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 21 and 34.
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- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 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 12.9% 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.
Byron Center against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,915 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Byron Center; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Byron Center has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Cutlerville (4 mi), is 1.7 times Byron Center's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Byron Center
What are the most common crimes in Byron Center?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 11 a year), other larceny (about 10 a year) and aggravated assault (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 7% above 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. Byron Center's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Byron Center has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 73.0% 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: 8,777. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Byron Center, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/byron-center
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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