Crime in River Rouge, Michigan
Major crime in River Rouge is 42% above the U.S. rate per resident: 2.0 times for persons crimes and 30% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.2% 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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Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 3.7 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in River Rouge 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 River Rouge
The middle half of River Rouge residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 101 and 183; the typical (median) resident's is 111. The citywide figure (142) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10023.6%
- 100–20068.9%
- 200–4007.5%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.2% 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.
River Rouge against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
288 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than River Rouge; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
River Rouge 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, Ecorse (1 mi), is 20% above River Rouge's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in River Rouge
What are the most common crimes in River Rouge?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are motor vehicle theft (about 40 a year), other larceny (about 34 a year) and aggravated assault (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 3.7 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. River Rouge's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- River Rouge 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: 6,806. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in River Rouge, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/river-rouge
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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