Crime in East Lansing, Michigan
Major crime in East Lansing is 20% below the U.S. rate per resident: 19% lower for persons crimes and 20% 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
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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 18% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in East Lansing 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 East Lansing
The middle half of East Lansing residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 11 and 115; the typical (median) resident's is 42. The citywide figure (80) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5057.1%
- 50–10012.1%
- 100–20019.2%
- 200–40010.8%
- 400+0.8%
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 7.5% 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.
East Lansing against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
459 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than East Lansing; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
East Lansing has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Haslett (3 mi), is 13% below East Lansing's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in East Lansing
What are the most common crimes in East Lansing?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 224 a year), theft from vehicle (about 152 a year) and aggravated assault (about 97 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 18% 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. East Lansing's figures add up its 37 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- East Lansing's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 27.4% 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: 48,546. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in East Lansing, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/east-lansing
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- Lansing4 mi212
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