Crime rate & statistics
Detroit Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
Reading Detroit's numbers honestly — the high totals, the real declines, and the wide gap between neighborhoods.
Key indices
Detroit crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in Detroit?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
Detroit's violent and property crime rates rank among the higher figures for large U.S. cities, but the trend over the past decade has bent downward from earlier peaks, and the citywide average hides enormous variation. A handful of districts account for a disproportionate share of serious incidents, while downtown, Midtown, and several stable neighborhoods post numbers that surprise people expecting uniform danger.
We translate Detroit's reported crime into estimated rates per 100,000 residents using national benchmarks, then express them as plain odds — the rough “1 in N” annual chance. The index is set so 100 equals the national average, and our A-to-F grades follow a single nationwide curve, so a Detroit grade can be compared directly with any other city we track.