Crime in Sterling Heights, Michigan
Major crime in Sterling Heights is 30% below the U.S. rate per resident: 27% lower for persons crimes and 30% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.3% 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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Intimidation stands out most, at 2.1 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sterling Heights 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 Sterling Heights
The middle half of Sterling Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 27 and 68; the typical (median) resident's is 45. The citywide figure (70) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5057.3%
- 50–10030.2%
- 100–20010.3%
- 200–4002.1%
- 400+0.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.3% 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.
Sterling Heights against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
210 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sterling Heights; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sterling Heights has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Utica (3 mi), is 2.5 times Sterling Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sterling Heights
What are the most common crimes in Sterling Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 594 a year), other larceny (about 337 a year) and aggravated assault (about 254 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 2.1 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. Sterling Heights's figures add up its 93 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sterling Heights's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 30.4% 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: 135,208. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sterling Heights, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/sterling-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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