CrimeMetric

Crime in Westwood, Michigan

Major crime in Westwood is 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.9% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
164
1.6 times the U.S. rate
1.8 times the Michigan rate
down 8.9% in a year
Persons crimes
181
1.8 times the U.S. rate
36% above the Michigan rate
down 4.0% in a year
Property crimes
160
1.6 times the U.S. rate
1.9 times the Michigan rate
down 10.0% in a year
Social disorder
112
12% above the U.S. rate
15% above the Michigan rate
down 6.3% 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

Motor vehicle theft stands out most, at 2.4 times the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Westwood

The middle half of Westwood residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 117 and 186; the typical (median) resident's is 176.

Map of Westwood, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–500.0%
  • 50–10013.1%
  • 100–20065.1%
  • 200–40021.9%
  • 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 6pm200
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am135
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm168
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am120
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.9% in a year; across Michigan it fell 6.1%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.9%MI -6.1%-14.2%MI -11.8%
Persons crimes-4.0%MI -1.8%-3.0%MI -1.3%
Property crimes-10.0%MI -7.5%-16.9%MI -15.5%
Social disorder-6.3%MI -2.9%-8.6%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

Westwood against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

211 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Westwood; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Ecorse, MI8,837171
Westwood, MI8,835164
Socorro, NM8,832160
Chehalis, WA8,843156
Edgemere, MD8,831149

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

Nearby places

Westwood 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, Kalamazoo (2 mi), is 38% above Westwood's rate.

Kalamazoo2 mi227
Galesburg11 mi209
Eastwood4 mi186
Westwood164
Paw Paw15 mi135
Portage6 mi131
Plainwell10 mi121
Otsego11 mi47

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

Questions about crime in Westwood

What are the most common crimes in Westwood?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 65 a year), theft from vehicle (about 49 a year) and aggravated assault (about 42 a year). Compared with the U.S., motor vehicle theft stands out most: 2.4 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. Westwood's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Westwood has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 44.8% 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: 8,835. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Westwood, Michigan." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mi/westwood

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100