Crime in Muskegon, Michigan
Major crime in Muskegon is 44% above the U.S. rate per resident: 1.7 times for persons crimes and 38% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.5% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 2.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Muskegon 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 Muskegon
The middle half of Muskegon residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 95 and 166; the typical (median) resident's is 127.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10025.9%
- 100–20063.8%
- 200–4006.6%
- 400+3.8%
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 3.5% 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.
Muskegon against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
140 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Muskegon; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Muskegon 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, Muskegon Heights (2 mi), is 1.9 times Muskegon's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Muskegon
What are the most common crimes in Muskegon?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 311 a year), aggravated assault (about 161 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 125 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 2.8 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. Muskegon's figures add up its 39 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Muskegon has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 87.2% 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: 37,691. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Muskegon, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/muskegon
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Muskegon Heights2 mi272
- North Muskegon2 mi64
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- Norton Shores4 mi105
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