Crime in Detroit, Michigan
Major crime in Detroit is 3.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 5.3 times for persons crimes and 2.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.0% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 6.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Detroit 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 Detroit
The middle half of Detroit residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 189 and 365; the typical (median) resident's is 260.
- 0–500.2%
- 50–1005.9%
- 100–20021.5%
- 200–40052.8%
- 400+19.5%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 6.0% 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.
Detroit against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents
3 of the 25 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Detroit; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Detroit has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Highland Park (1 mi), is 26% above Detroit's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Detroit
What are the most common crimes in Detroit?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 9,291 a year), other larceny (about 6,641 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 5,551 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 6.2 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. Detroit's figures add up its 623 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Detroit's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 95.1% 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: 656,201. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Detroit, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/detroit
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Highland Park1 mi384
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- Hazel Park5 mi90
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