CrimeMetric

Crime in Imlay City, Michigan

Major crime in Imlay City is 34% below the U.S. rate per resident: 34% lower for persons crimes and 34% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
66
34% below the U.S. rate
29% below the Michigan rate
down 8.3% in a year
Persons crimes
66
34% below the U.S. rate
50% below the Michigan rate
down 5.7% in a year
Property crimes
66
34% below the U.S. rate
21% below the Michigan rate
down 8.8% in a year
Social disorder
113
13% above the U.S. rate
16% above the Michigan rate
down 4.6% 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

Intimidation stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Imlay City for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Imlay City

Imlay City is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 28; the middle half of residents live where it is between 28 and 65.

Map of Imlay City, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5050.8%
  • 50–10033.1%
  • 100–20016.1%
  • 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 6pm85
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am43
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm78
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am53
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.3% in a year; across Michigan it fell 6.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.3%MI -6.1%-12.9%MI -11.8%
Persons crimes-5.7%MI -1.8%+0.5%MI -1.3%
Property crimes-8.8%MI -7.5%-15.8%MI -15.5%
Social disorder-4.6%MI -2.9%-2.7%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

Imlay City against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

743 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Imlay City; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Imlay City, MI3,77766
Grant, MN3,77035

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

Nearby places

Imlay City 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, Lapeer (13 mi), is 31% above Imlay City's rate.

Lapeer13 mi87
Imlay City66
Davison22 mi48
Richmond22 mi35
Lake Orion18 mi32
New Haven25 mi30
Romeo15 mi27
Oxford16 mi27
Rochester23 mi18

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

Questions about crime in Imlay City

What are the most common crimes in Imlay City?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 20 a year), theft from vehicle (about 5 a year) and burglary (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.6 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. Imlay City's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Imlay City 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: 3,777. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Imlay City, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/imlay-city

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100