Crime in Pontiac, Michigan
Major crime in Pontiac is 37% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.7 times for persons crimes and 7% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 2.9% 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 3.4 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Pontiac 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 Pontiac
The middle half of Pontiac residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 82 and 159; the typical (median) resident's is 116.
- 0–502.0%
- 50–10031.1%
- 100–20056.6%
- 200–4009.0%
- 400+1.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 2.9% 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.
Pontiac against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
116 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Pontiac; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Pontiac 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, Auburn Hills (3 mi), is 22% below Pontiac's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Pontiac
What are the most common crimes in Pontiac?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 466 a year), other larceny (about 318 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 191 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 3.4 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. Pontiac's figures add up its 55 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Pontiac has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 75.3% 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: 62,291. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Pontiac, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/pontiac
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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