Photo: Forevercry · CC BY-SA 4.0In Bridgman, the kinds of crime the grade counts rose 114% per resident from 2023 to 2025
Its Safety Grade, A−, rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: less crime per resident than 82% of U.S. towns. What’s more, the yearly rates were 0.5 violent crime and 5.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 5.4 and 17.5 in the rest of Michigan. Violent crime here is lower than in 85% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in 75%.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of MI” is every other Michigan city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Bridgman
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Bridgman’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Bridgman property | Rest of Michigan property | Bridgman violent | Rest of Michigan violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.7 | 18.7 | 1.9 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 3.9 | 19.4 | 0.0 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 5.9 | 17.4 | 0.5 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 7.4 | 15.6 | 1.0 | 5.1 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident rose from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Michigan.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Bridgman | Rest of Michigan | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.9 | 5.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.0 | 5.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.0 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Bridgman’s police reported 3 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.4 in the rest of Michigan and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Bridgman per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
17 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
2 violent and 15 property, as reported to the FBI by Bridgman’s police.
One person died in crashes on Bridgman’s roads in 2019–2023
Bridgman had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died. Most of these deaths (1 of 1) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Michigan towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (12.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Bridgman’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Bridgman’s own rate (9.6) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Bridgman and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgman | A− | 0.5 | 5.7 |
| Lake Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Lake Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Michigan towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgman | A− | 0.5 | 5.7 |
| Springport Township | A− | 0.5 | 5.5 |
| Grayling | C+ | 2.7 | 14.2 |
| Capac | C | 2.4 | 19.1 |
| Bangor | D | 9.3 | 16.6 |
| Hart | D | 5.3 | 35.9 |
The five graded Michigan towns closest to Bridgman’s population (2,040), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Bridgman. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Bridgman’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,037 in 2025); our figure for Bridgman is 2,040 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Bridgman
Is Bridgman, MI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Bridgman reports less crime per resident than 82% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade. Its police reported 0.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.4 in the rest of Michigan and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Bridgman?
0.5 violent and 5.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Michigan reports 5.4 and 17.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Bridgman?
Bridgman’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Bridgman”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.