CrimeMetric

Crime in Spring Lake, Michigan

Major crime in Spring Lake is 7% below the U.S. rate per resident: 1.6 times for persons crimes and 21% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
93
7% below the U.S. rate
about the Michigan rate
down 7.3% in a year
Persons crimes
156
1.6 times the U.S. rate
17% above the Michigan rate
down 4.8% in a year
Property crimes
80
21% below the U.S. rate
5% below the Michigan rate
down 8.3% in a year
Social disorder
154
1.5 times the U.S. rate
1.6 times the Michigan rate
down 5.1% in a year

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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Crime by type

Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 3.3 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Spring Lake for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Spring Lake

Spring Lake is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 74; the middle half of residents live where it is between 54 and 74.

Map of Spring Lake, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10075.9%
  • 100–20024.1%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm121
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am67
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm89
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am77
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.3% in a year; across Michigan it fell 6.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.3%MI -6.1%-8.9%MI -11.8%
Persons crimes-4.8%MI -1.8%+2.4%MI -1.3%
Property crimes-8.3%MI -7.5%-13.8%MI -15.5%
Social disorder-5.1%MI -2.9%-2.2%MI -5.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Spring Lake against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents

449 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Spring Lake; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:

Lewiston, NY2,544198
Spring Lake, MI2,54293
Mangum, OK2,54459
Wells, MN2,53825

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Spring Lake has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ferrysburg (1 mi), is 50% below Spring Lake's rate.

Muskegon11 mi144
Spring Lake93
Wolf Lake12 mi50

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Spring Lake

What are the most common crimes in Spring Lake?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 11 a year), aggravated assault (about 9 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.3 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. Spring Lake's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Spring Lake has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 67.0% 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: 2,542. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Spring Lake, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/spring-lake

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100