Crime in Dearborn Heights, Michigan
Major crime in Dearborn Heights is 11% below the U.S. rate per resident: 36% higher for persons crimes and 21% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.8% 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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Simple assault and intimidation stand out most, at about 1.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Dearborn Heights 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 Dearborn Heights
The middle half of Dearborn Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 68 and 97; the typical (median) resident's is 78.
- 0–509.3%
- 50–10075.0%
- 100–2008.5%
- 200–4007.2%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.8% 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.
Dearborn Heights against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
288 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Dearborn Heights; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Dearborn Heights 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, Inkster (2 mi), is 1.7 times Dearborn Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Dearborn Heights
What are the most common crimes in Dearborn Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 226 a year), other larceny (about 185 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 164 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple 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. Dearborn Heights's figures add up its 38 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Dearborn Heights has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 96.5% 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: 60,626. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Dearborn Heights, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/dearborn-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Inkster2 mi151
- Dearborn3 mi119
- Garden City3 mi54
- Westland5 mi100
- Melvindale5 mi81
- Allen Park5 mi88
- Wayne6 mi103
- Taylor6 mi135