Crime in Flint, Michigan
Major crime in Flint is 25% above the U.S. rate per resident: 3.4 times for persons crimes and 23% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% 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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Aggravated assault stands out most, at 4.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Flint 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 Flint
The middle half of Flint residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 75 and 149; the typical (median) resident's is 101. The citywide figure (125) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–506.6%
- 50–10042.2%
- 100–20038.3%
- 200–40012.3%
- 400+0.6%
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 9.5% 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.
Flint against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
151 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Flint; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Flint has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Burton (4 mi), is 6% above Flint's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Flint
What are the most common crimes in Flint?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 735 a year), other larceny (about 368 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 199 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 4.0 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. Flint's figures add up its 117 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Flint has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 6.8% 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: 79,281. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Flint, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/flint
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Burton4 mi132
- Beecher4 mi172
- Flushing8 mi31
- Grand Blanc8 mi50
- Swartz Creek8 mi47
- Davison9 mi48
- Lake Fenton13 mi21
- Fenton16 mi84