Crime in Royal Oak, Michigan
Major crime in Royal Oak is 47% below the U.S. rate per resident: 62% lower for persons crimes and 43% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 1.3% 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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Every crime type in Royal Oak is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Royal Oak 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 Royal Oak
The middle half of Royal Oak residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 51; the typical (median) resident's is 41. The citywide figure (53) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5073.0%
- 50–10021.3%
- 100–2004.0%
- 200–4001.7%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 1.3% 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.
Royal Oak against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
452 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Royal Oak; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Royal Oak has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Berkley (2 mi), is 54% below Royal Oak's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Royal Oak
What are the most common crimes in Royal Oak?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 186 a year), shoplifting (about 116 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 91 a year). Compared with the U.S., murder stands out most: 27% below 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. Royal Oak's figures add up its 57 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Royal Oak has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 4.5% 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: 57,872. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Royal Oak, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/royal-oak
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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