CrimeMetric

Crime in Clare, Michigan

Major crime in Clare is 38% below the U.S. rate per resident: 27% lower for persons crimes and 40% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
62
38% below the U.S. rate
33% below the Michigan rate
down 7.5% in a year
Persons crimes
74
27% below the U.S. rate
45% below the Michigan rate
down 1.5% in a year
Property crimes
60
40% below the U.S. rate
29% below the Michigan rate
down 9.0% in a year
Social disorder
76
24% below the U.S. rate
22% below the Michigan rate
down 3.4% in a year

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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Crime by type

Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Clare for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Clare

Clare is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 59; the middle half of residents live where it is between 58 and 60.

Map of Clare, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–100100.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm76
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am49
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm65
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am48
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.5% in a year; across Michigan it fell 6.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.5%MI -6.1%-12.5%MI -11.8%
Persons crimes-1.5%MI -1.8%+0.8%MI -1.3%
Property crimes-9.0%MI -7.5%-16.1%MI -15.5%
Social disorder-3.4%MI -2.9%-4.6%MI -5.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Clare against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

798 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Clare; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Clare, MI4,26262
Zapata, TX4,26028

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Clare 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, Mount Pleasant (16 mi), is 1.6 times Clare's rate.

Big Rapids36 mi125
Gladwin19 mi94
Alma31 mi73
Evart26 mi67
Clare62
St. Louis30 mi39
Midland31 mi28

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Clare

What are the most common crimes in Clare?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 18 a year), shoplifting (about 8 a year) and aggravated assault (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.7 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. Clare's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Clare 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: 4,262. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Clare, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/clare

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100