Crime in Lansing, Michigan
Major crime in Lansing is 2.1 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.8 times for persons crimes and 1.8 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.1% 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 4.3 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in 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 Lansing
The middle half of Lansing residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 88 and 261; the typical (median) resident's is 154. The citywide figure (212) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–507.6%
- 50–10023.3%
- 100–20033.5%
- 200–40022.5%
- 400+13.1%
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 rose 1.1% 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.
Lansing against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
27 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lansing; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lansing has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Edgemont Park (3 mi), is 54% below Lansing's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lansing
What are the most common crimes in Lansing?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 1,124 a year), other larceny (about 743 a year) and shoplifting (about 698 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 4.3 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. Lansing's figures add up its 112 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lansing's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 68.5% 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: 114,726. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lansing, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/lansing
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Edgemont Park3 mi97
- East Lansing4 mi80
- Waverly4 mi109
- Holt5 mi37
- Okemos7 mi113
- Haslett7 mi70
- DeWitt9 mi20
- Grand Ledge10 mi39