CrimeMetric

Crime in Grand Haven, Michigan

Major crime in Grand Haven is 48% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% lower for persons crimes and 50% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
52
48% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Michigan rate
down 7.3% in a year
Persons crimes
62
38% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Michigan rate
down 5.1% in a year
Property crimes
50
50% below the U.S. rate
41% below the Michigan rate
down 7.9% in a year
Social disorder
70
30% below the U.S. rate
28% below the Michigan rate
down 4.9% 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 Grand Haven for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Grand Haven

The middle half of Grand Haven residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 59; the typical (median) resident's is 33. The citywide figure (52) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Grand Haven, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5064.8%
  • 50–10015.6%
  • 100–20019.7%
  • 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 6pm71
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm46
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am37
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.3% in a year; across Michigan it fell 6.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.3%MI -6.1%-12.0%MI -11.8%
Persons crimes-5.1%MI -1.8%-0.3%MI -1.3%
Property crimes-7.9%MI -7.5%-15.2%MI -15.5%
Social disorder-4.9%MI -2.9%-4.3%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

Grand Haven against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,447 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Grand Haven; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Sylacauga, AL11,749153
Grand Haven, MI11,74952
Woodmere, LA11,75252
Jackson, WY11,74035

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

Nearby places

Grand Haven has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Spring Lake (2 mi), is 1.8 times Grand Haven's rate.

Muskegon12 mi144
Grand Haven52
Wolf Lake14 mi50

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

Questions about crime in Grand Haven

What are the most common crimes in Grand Haven?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 42 a year), shoplifting (about 23 a year) and aggravated assault (about 15 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. Grand Haven's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Grand Haven 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: 11,749. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Grand Haven, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/grand-haven

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100