Safest Places to Live in Michigan of September 2024

Last Update: March 11, 2023 • Living •

Michigan is located in the Midwest region of the United States. It is named after Lake Michigan, meaning ‘large water’ or ‘large lake.’ With around 10 million residents, it is the 11th most populous US state.

It is a great recreational boating destination surrounded by water (Great Lakes and Lake Saint Clair). The automotive industry is also a strong economic factor since several automobile manufacturers are situated there.

The capital of the State of Michigan is Lansing, while the largest city is Detroit. Until a few years ago, Detroit was an infamously dangerous city.

Ranking Criteria

ElitePersonalFinance extracted the latest data from the FBI crime statistics in the United States. We took violent crime as the main criteria. To get our score, we used this formula:

Crime Score = ( Total Number of Violent Crimes / Population ) * 1,000

This way, safer cities got the lowest score, and those more vulnerable to crimes got higher scores.

The cities that did not report crimes to the FBI and those under 5,000 residents were not included in the list.

50 Safest Places in Michigan of September 2024

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Huntington Woods	6 321	0	0,00
2	Thetford Township	6 689	0	0,00
3	Grosse Ile Township	10 135	1	0,10
4	Oakland Township	19 649	2	0,10
5	Spring Arbor Township	8 009	1	0,12
6	Beverly Hills	10 429	2	0,19
7	Lapeer Township	5 032	1	0,20
8	Hamburg Township	21 755	5	0,23
9	Bloomfield Township	42 326	11	0,26
10	Adrian Township	6 239	2	0,32
11	East Grand Rapids	12 040	4	0,33
12	Springfield Township	14 554	5	0,34
13	Petoskey	5 747	2	0,35
14	Denton Township	5 379	2	0,37
15	Houghton	8 029	3	0,37
16	Highland Township	20 302	8	0,39
17	Rochester	13 429	6	0,45
18	Argentine Township	6 506	3	0,46
19	Birmingham	21 479	10	0,47
20	Gaines Township	6 080	3	0,49
21	South Lyon	11 896	6	0,50
22	Rochester Hills	75 167	39	0,52
23	Farmington	10 587	6	0,57
24	Berkley	15 482	9	0,58
25	Clawson	11 948	7	0,59
26	Lyon Township	21 540	13	0,60
27	West Bloomfield Township	66 067	40	0,61
28	Tittabawassee Township	9 863	6	0,61
29	Grand Ledge	7 862	5	0,64
30	Saline	9 431	6	0,64
31	New Baltimore	12 444	8	0,64
32	Orion Township	36 878	24	0,65
33	Plymouth	9 175	6	0,65
34	Commerce Township	39 690	26	0,66
35	Plymouth Township	27 020	18	0,67
36	Northville Township	29 170	20	0,69
37	Milford	16 984	12	0,71
38	Richfield Township, Genesee County	8 358	6	0,72
39	Oxford Township	19 467	14	0,72
40	Chelsea	5 543	4	0,72
41	Napoleon Township	6 757	5	0,74
42	Brandon Township	16 121	12	0,74
43	Flushing	7 860	6	0,76
44	Raisin Township	7 760	6	0,77
45	Novi	61 699	48	0,78
46	Green Oak Township	19 075	15	0,79
47	Troy	84 688	67	0,79
48	White Lake Township	31 556	25	0,79
49	Montrose Township	7 447	6	0,81
50	Holly	6 185	5	0,81

Crime Score in All Cities in Michigan of September 2024

If your city didn’t make our list, you could see our full list of Michigan cities.

We can’t compare crime rates in small and large cities. That’s why ElitePersonalFinance made a detailed analysis and narrowed the results according to population segments:

Under 3,000 Residents
3,000 – 10,000 Residents
10,000 – 30,000 Residents
30,000 – 100,000 Residents
Over 100,000 Residents

(Other sites don’t include places with under 3,000 residents, but we included them.)

These are the results that we got:

Under 3,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Owendale	224	0	0,00
2	Lake Angelus	309	0	0,00
3	Barryton	353	0	0,00
4	Gagetown	360	0	0,00
5	Akron	374	0	0,00
6	Kinde	417	0	0,00
7	New Era	446	0	0,00
8	Rothbury	448	0	0,00
9	Lennon	482	0	0,00
10	Bancroft	494	0	0,00
11	Galien	533	0	0,00
12	New Lothrop	552	0	0,00
13	Peck	591	0	0,00
14	Eau Claire	599	0	0,00
15	Hopkins	611	0	0,00
16	Calumet	691	0	0,00
17	Caseville	731	0	0,00
18	Elkton	751	0	0,00
19	Vernon	770	0	0,00
20	Mackinaw City	797	0	0,00
21	Otisville	823	0	0,00
22	Au Gres	834	0	0,00
23	Garfield Township	838	0	0,00
24	Central Lake	938	0	0,00
25	Lake Linden	962	0	0,00
26	Elsie	983	0	0,00
27	Millington	995	0	0,00
28	Fair Haven Township	1 038	0	0,00
29	Reading	1 042	0	0,00
30	Bellaire	1 067	0	0,00
31	Lexington	1 099	0	0,00
32	Pigeon	1 123	0	0,00
33	Coleman	1 188	0	0,00
34	Breckenridge	1 261	0	0,00
35	Bellevue	1 291	0	0,00
36	Mancelona	1 364	0	0,00
37	Fennville	1 421	0	0,00
38	Marenisco Township	1 434	0	0,00
39	Zilwaukee	1 523	0	0,00
40	Manton	1 544	0	0,00
41	Schoolcraft	1 559	0	0,00
42	Ovid	1 611	0	0,00
43	Elk Rapids	1 618	0	0,00
44	Laurium	1 912	0	0,00
45	West Branch	2 048	0	0,00
46	Woodland Township	2 115	0	0,00
47	Saugatuck-Douglas	2 307	0	0,00
48	Pleasant Ridge	2 465	0	0,00
49	Potterville	2 712	0	0,00
50	Grosse Pointe Shores	2 836	1	0,35
51	Norway	2 756	1	0,36
52	Rogers City	2 663	1	0,38
53	Cass City	2 268	1	0,44
54	Kalkaska	2 086	1	0,48
55	Leslie	1 909	1	0,52
56	St. Charles	1 891	1	0,53
57	Gerrish Township	2 922	2	0,68
58	Stanton	1 435	1	0,70
59	Litchfield	1 333	1	0,75
60	Orchard Lake	2 483	2	0,81
61	Harbor Springs	1 208	1	0,83
62	Pinckney	2 410	2	0,83
63	Memphis	1 184	1	0,84
64	Beaverton	1 176	1	0,85
65	Clinton	2 274	2	0,88
66	Chesaning	2 238	2	0,89
67	Lake Odessa	2 036	2	0,98
68	Lakeview	1 007	1	0,99
69	New Buffalo	1 877	2	1,07
70	Sylvan Lake	1 864	2	1,07
71	Olivet	1 857	2	1,08
72	Whitehall	2 785	3	1,08
73	Clarkston	925	1	1,08
74	Morrice	894	1	1,12
75	Grant	892	1	1,12
76	Mendon	854	1	1,17
77	Cassopolis	1 695	2	1,18
78	Sebewaing	1 629	2	1,23
79	Richland	806	1	1,24
80	Montague	2 359	3	1,27
81	White Pigeon	1 521	2	1,31
82	Bridgman	2 224	3	1,35
83	Springport Township	2 148	3	1,40
84	Reese	1 364	2	1,47
85	Laingsburg	1 281	2	1,56
86	Stockbridge	1 257	2	1,59
87	Port Austin	620	1	1,61
88	Brown City	1 240	2	1,61
89	Scottville	1 210	2	1,65
90	East Jordan	2 351	4	1,70
91	Colon	1 159	2	1,73
92	Fowlerville	2 869	5	1,74
93	Three Oaks	1 549	3	1,94
94	Shepherd	1 489	3	2,01
95	Tuscarora Township	2 934	6	2,04
96	Birch Run	1 462	3	2,05
97	St. Ignace	2 309	5	2,17
98	Crystal Falls	1 359	3	2,21
99	Lawton	1 799	4	2,22
100	Hartford	2 589	6	2,32
101	Frankfort	1 289	3	2,33
102	Pentwater	853	2	2,34
103	Nashville	1 678	4	2,38
104	Bad Axe	2 923	7	2,39
105	Pinconning	1 238	3	2,42
106	Quincy	1 616	4	2,48
107	Carson City	1 117	3	2,69
108	Jonesville	2 204	6	2,72
109	Capac	1 822	5	2,74
110	Sandusky	2 508	7	2,79
111	Constantine	2 105	6	2,85
112	Newaygo	2 068	6	2,90
113	Hesperia	941	3	3,19
114	Munising	2 177	7	3,22
115	Augusta	902	3	3,33
116	Perry	2 075	7	3,37
117	Marlette	1 756	6	3,42
118	Caspian-Gaastra	1 165	4	3,43
119	Clio	2 483	9	3,62
120	Watervliet	1 652	6	3,63
121	Grayling	1 833	7	3,82
122	Almont	2 814	11	3,91
123	Vassar	2 534	10	3,95
124	Charlevoix	2 498	10	4,00
125	Hudson	2 207	9	4,08
126	Morenci	2 146	9	4,19
127	Covert Township	2 853	12	4,21
128	Mackinac Island	468	2	4,27
129	Mayville	882	4	4,54
130	Decatur	1 731	8	4,62
131	Bronson	2 308	11	4,77
132	Yale	1 875	9	4,80
133	Shelby	2 032	10	4,92
134	Ubly	785	4	5,10
135	Iron River	2 816	15	5,33
136	Manistique	2 915	16	5,49
137	Harbor Beach	1 584	9	5,68
138	Croswell	2 262	14	6,19
139	Gladwin	2 880	18	6,25
140	Evart	1 865	13	6,97
141	White Cloud	1 395	10	7,17
142	Reed City	2 377	18	7,57
143	Mattawan	1 970	15	7,61
144	Hart	2 089	17	8,14
145	Mount Morris	2 834	25	8,82
146	Bangor	1 823	20	10,97

3,000 – 10,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Essexville	3 296	0	0,00
2	Otsego	4 007	0	0,00
3	Huntington Woods	6 321	0	0,00
4	Thetford Township	6 689	0	0,00
5	Spring Arbor Township	8 009	1	0,12
6	Lapeer Township	5 032	1	0,20
7	Wolverine Lake	4 825	1	0,21
8	Richland Township, Saginaw County	3 925	1	0,25
9	Oxford	3 574	1	0,28
10	Barry Township	3 510	1	0,28
11	Keego Harbor	3 462	1	0,29
12	Adrian Township	6 239	2	0,32
13	Petoskey	5 747	2	0,35
14	Denton Township	5 379	2	0,37
15	Houghton	8 029	3	0,37
16	Dryden Township	4 734	2	0,42
17	Argentine Township	6 506	3	0,46
18	Gaines Township	6 080	3	0,49
19	North Muskegon	3 797	2	0,53
20	Prairieville Township	3 525	2	0,57
21	Tittabawassee Township	9 863	6	0,61
22	Franklin	3 268	2	0,61
23	Grand Ledge	7 862	5	0,64
24	Saline	9 431	6	0,64
25	Plymouth	9 175	6	0,65
26	Somerset Township	4 541	3	0,66
27	Richfield Township, Genesee County	8 358	6	0,72
28	Chelsea	5 543	4	0,72
29	Lathrup Village	4 124	3	0,73
30	Napoleon Township	6 757	5	0,74
31	Flushing	7 860	6	0,76
32	Linden	3 908	3	0,77
33	Raisin Township	7 760	6	0,77
34	Roosevelt Park	3 793	3	0,79
35	Montrose Township	7 447	6	0,81
36	Holly	6 185	5	0,81
37	Romeo	3 608	3	0,83
38	DeWitt	4 790	4	0,84
39	Ishpeming Township	3 528	3	0,85
40	Cambridge Township	5 657	5	0,88
41	Gibraltar	4 467	4	0,90
42	Addison Township	6 653	6	0,90
43	Frankenmuth	5 458	5	0,92
44	Marysville	9 656	9	0,93
45	Metamora Township	4 287	4	0,93
46	Rockwood	3 165	3	0,95
47	Iron Mountain	7 320	7	0,96
48	Grosse Pointe Farms	9 108	9	0,99
49	Belding	5 747	6	1,04
50	Gladstone	4 699	5	1,06
51	Kinross Township	7 288	8	1,10
52	Richfield Township, Roscommon County	3 630	4	1,10
53	Hancock	4 533	5	1,10
54	Vicksburg	3 490	4	1,15
55	Grosse Pointe	5 141	6	1,17
56	Brighton	7 684	9	1,17
57	St. Joseph Township	9 738	12	1,23
58	Bloomfield Hills	4 027	5	1,24
59	Clayton Township	7 110	9	1,27
60	Madison Township	8 287	11	1,33
61	Northville	5 971	8	1,34
62	Berrien Springs-Oronoko Township	8 940	12	1,34
63	Walled Lake	7 184	10	1,39
64	Grand Blanc	7 865	11	1,40
65	Rockford	6 377	9	1,41
66	Marshall	6 997	10	1,43
67	Baroda-Lake Township	3 859	6	1,55
68	Durand	3 825	6	1,57
69	Sumpter Township	9 407	15	1,59
70	Chikaming Township	3 108	5	1,61
71	Columbia Township	7 359	12	1,63
72	Ironwood	4 883	8	1,64
73	Lowell	4 198	7	1,67
74	Imlay City	3 575	6	1,68
75	Hampton Township	9 428	16	1,70
76	Williamston	3 972	7	1,76
77	Carrollton Township	5 626	10	1,78
78	Tawas	4 471	8	1,79
79	Tecumseh	8 382	15	1,79
80	Northfield Township	8 788	16	1,82
81	Sparta	4 391	8	1,82
82	Chocolay Township	5 931	11	1,85
83	Ishpeming	6 426	12	1,87
84	Lake Orion	3 177	6	1,89
85	Forsyth Township	6 197	12	1,94
86	Zeeland	5 572	11	1,97
87	Negaunee	4 544	9	1,98
88	Allegan	5 038	10	1,98
89	Kingsford	4 950	10	2,02
90	St. Joseph	8 355	17	2,03
91	Davison	4 874	10	2,05
92	Utica	5 195	11	2,12
93	Milan	6 106	13	2,13
94	Blissfield	3 250	7	2,15
95	Coloma Township	6 362	14	2,20
96	Marine City	4 061	9	2,22
97	Mason	8 483	19	2,24
98	Alma	8 866	20	2,26
99	St. Johns	7 938	18	2,27
100	St. Clair	5 286	12	2,27
101	Unadilla Township	3 425	8	2,34
102	Hastings	7 313	18	2,46
103	Clay Township	8 844	23	2,60
104	Fremont	4 103	11	2,68
105	Portland	3 932	11	2,80
106	St. Louis	7 104	20	2,82
107	Oscoda Township	6 746	19	2,82
108	Hillsdale	8 020	23	2,87
109	Plainwell	3 804	11	2,89
110	Ontwa Township-Edwardsburg	6 553	19	2,90
111	Corunna	3 337	10	3,00
112	Caro	3 969	12	3,02
113	Charlotte	9 088	28	3,08
114	Belleville	3 873	12	3,10
115	Clare	3 061	10	3,27
116	Wayland	4 272	14	3,28
117	Howell	9 637	32	3,32
118	Center Line	8 232	28	3,40
119	Greenville	8 447	29	3,43
120	Boyne City	3 752	13	3,46
121	Manistee	6 103	23	3,77
122	Gaylord	3 709	14	3,77
123	Cheboygan	4 695	18	3,83
124	Ludington	8 144	32	3,93
125	Lapeer	8 597	35	4,07
126	Menominee	8 052	33	4,10
127	Richmond	5 904	26	4,40
128	Buchanan	4 274	21	4,91
129	Bridgeport Township	9 778	49	5,01
130	Paw Paw	3 370	17	5,04
131	South Haven	4 326	24	5,55
132	Alpena	9 901	58	5,86
133	Eaton Rapids	5 216	31	5,94
134	Dowagiac	5 719	45	7,87
135	Lansing Township	8 294	70	8,44
136	Albion	8 462	80	9,45
137	Three Rivers	7 643	75	9,81
138	River Rouge	7 404	80	10,80
139	Buena Vista Township	8 095	92	11,37
140	Ecorse	9 601	117	12,19
141	Benton Harbor	9 801	190	19,39

10,000 – 30,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Grosse Ile Township	10 135	1	0,10
2	Oakland Township	19 649	2	0,10
3	Beverly Hills	10 429	2	0,19
4	Hamburg Township	21 755	5	0,23
5	East Grand Rapids	12 040	4	0,33
6	Springfield Township	14 554	5	0,34
7	Highland Township	20 302	8	0,39
8	Rochester	13 429	6	0,45
9	Birmingham	21 479	10	0,47
10	South Lyon	11 896	6	0,50
11	Farmington	10 587	6	0,57
12	Berkley	15 482	9	0,58
13	Clawson	11 948	7	0,59
14	Lyon Township	21 540	13	0,60
15	New Baltimore	12 444	8	0,64
16	Plymouth Township	27 020	18	0,67
17	Northville Township	29 170	20	0,69
18	Milford	16 984	12	0,71
19	Oxford Township	19 467	14	0,72
20	Brandon Township	16 121	12	0,74
21	Green Oak Township	19 075	15	0,79
22	Lincoln Township	14 615	14	0,96
23	Woodhaven	12 438	13	1,05
24	Bath Township	13 131	14	1,07
25	Flushing Township	10 174	11	1,08
26	Trenton	18 147	20	1,10
27	Fruitport Township	14 346	16	1,12
28	Marquette	20 599	26	1,26
29	Grosse Pointe Park	11 041	14	1,27
30	Davison Township	19 207	26	1,35
31	DeWitt Township	15 613	23	1,47
32	Norton Shores	24 702	37	1,50
33	Huron Township	16 089	26	1,62
34	Grosse Pointe Woods	15 350	25	1,63
35	Riverview	12 027	20	1,66
36	Flat Rock	10 024	17	1,70
37	Wixom	14 074	24	1,71
38	Thomas Township	11 438	20	1,75
39	Allen Park	26 945	48	1,78
40	Walker	25 051	45	1,80
41	Fenton	11 281	21	1,86
42	Mount Pleasant	25 315	48	1,90
43	Fraser	14 578	33	2,26
44	Wyandotte	24 829	59	2,38
45	Hazel Park	16 478	40	2,43
46	Oak Park	29 654	72	2,43
47	Grandville	16 021	39	2,43
48	Sault Ste. Marie	13 478	33	2,45
49	Metro Police Authority of Genesee County	19 931	49	2,46
50	Ferndale	20 097	50	2,49
51	Big Rapids	10 389	26	2,50
52	Muskegon Township	17 937	45	2,51
53	Grand Haven	11 155	28	2,51
54	Southgate	28 979	74	2,55
55	Van Buren Township	28 294	80	2,83
56	Genesee Township	20 410	63	3,09
57	Auburn Hills	24 393	82	3,36
58	Garden City	26 420	96	3,63
59	Emmett Township	11 668	43	3,69
60	Coldwater	12 098	47	3,88
61	Kalamazoo Township	24 613	96	3,90
62	Ionia	10 907	44	4,03
63	Sturgis	10 779	44	4,08
64	Traverse City	15 772	66	4,18
65	Melvindale	10 264	47	4,58
66	Burton	28 496	136	4,77
67	Escanaba	12 129	60	4,95
68	Cadillac	10 466	52	4,97
69	Mount Morris Township	20 274	130	6,41
70	Owosso	14 399	97	6,74
71	Adrian	20 334	140	6,89
72	Wayne	16 816	120	7,14
73	Port Huron	28 783	218	7,57
74	Niles	11 106	86	7,74
75	Harper Woods	13 746	110	8,00
76	Hamtramck	21 633	174	8,04
77	Romulus	23 507	231	9,83
78	Inkster	24 268	242	9,97
79	Ypsilanti	21 178	216	10,20
80	Benton Township	14 372	287	19,97
81	Highland Park	10 703	221	20,65
82	Muskegon Heights	10 717	232	21,65

30,000 – 100,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Bloomfield Township	42 326	11	0,26
2	Rochester Hills	75 167	39	0,52
3	West Bloomfield Township	66 067	40	0,61
4	Orion Township	36 878	24	0,65
5	Commerce Township	39 690	26	0,66
6	Novi	61 699	48	0,78
7	Troy	84 688	67	0,79
8	White Lake Township	31 556	25	0,79
9	Independence Township	37 101	34	0,92
10	Royal Oak	59 742	61	1,02
11	Farmington Hills	81 262	87	1,07
12	Shelby Township	80 806	99	1,23
13	Canton Township	93 406	120	1,28
14	Midland	41 791	56	1,34
15	Grand Blanc Township	36 523	61	1,67
16	Pittsfield Township	39 417	69	1,75
17	Madison Heights	30 081	53	1,76
18	Livonia	93 644	167	1,78
19	St. Clair Shores	59 365	107	1,80
20	East Lansing	47 913	88	1,84
21	Waterford Township	73 105	135	1,85
22	Chesterfield Township	46 774	87	1,86
23	Saginaw Township	39 022	82	2,10
24	Blackman Township	37 002	85	2,30
25	Brownstown Township	32 083	75	2,34
26	Meridian Township	43 790	108	2,47
27	Southfield	73 335	200	2,73
28	Portage	49 583	136	2,74
29	Kentwood	52 274	162	3,10
30	Dearborn	93 902	305	3,25
31	Westland	81 444	307	3,77
32	Roseville	47 381	180	3,80
33	Holland	33 356	127	3,81
34	Dearborn Heights	55 368	227	4,10
35	Wyoming	76 295	368	4,82
36	Redford Township	46 742	244	5,22
37	Lincoln Park	36 336	224	6,16
38	Taylor	60 923	378	6,20
39	Eastpointe	32 340	223	6,90
40	Flint Township	30 319	241	7,95
41	Bay City	32 793	271	8,26
42	Muskegon	37 178	308	8,28
43	Battle Creek	60 607	568	9,37
44	Jackson	32 503	360	11,08
45	Kalamazoo	76 827	949	12,35
46	Pontiac	59 791	769	12,86
47	Flint	95 212	1 284	13,49
48	Saginaw	47 954	707	14,74

Over 100,000 Residents

Rank:	City:	Population:	Total Number of Crimes:	Crime Score:
1	Sterling Heights	133 377	167	1,25
2	Ann Arbor	122 893	309	2,51
3	Clinton Township	101 308	298	2,94
4	Warren	134 653	648	4,81
5	Grand Rapids	201 799	1 286	6,37
6	Lansing	118 953	1 313	11,04
7	Detroit	663 502	13 040	19,65

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