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Safety in Frankfort · Not graded

What is recorded in Frankfort, and why there is no grade

Frankfort’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. Manistee, 27 miles away, is the nearest town with a Safety Grade (C).

Violent crimes
3
reported to the FBI, 2025
Property crimes
5
reported to the FBI, 2025
Nearest graded town
27 mi
Manistee (C)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 4 property crimes reported

Property crime (3.9)Violent crime (2.3)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Frankfort2.3
Rest of MI5.1
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Frankfort3.9
Rest of MI15.6
U.S. (FBI)15.5

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 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

By year

The years Frankfort’s police reported

Show as a table
YearFrankfortRest of MichiganFrankfortRest of Michigan
202210.918.72.35.7
20237.819.40.05.7
2024not reported17.4not reported5.4
20253.915.62.35.1

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Michigan. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.

What gets reported

8 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft3
Burglary2
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault3
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
3
violent crimes
5
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

3 violent and 5 property, as reported to the FBI by Frankfort’s police.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Michigan towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
ManisteeC27 mi3.116.1
Traverse CityC+32 mi4.07.7
MantonA−44 mi0.94.8
CadillacC−48 mi4.120.5
LudingtonB−48 mi2.19.6
KalkaskaB52 mi0.911.3

Straight-line distance from the center of Frankfort. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Frankfort.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

One person died in crashes on Frankfort’s roads in 2019–2023

Frankfort had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.

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 Frankfort’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Frankfort’s own rate (16.3) is context, not a ranking.

1
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
16.3
per 100,000 a year · Michigan towns of 2,500–5,000: 12.4

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.

Next door

Frankfort and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Crystal Lake Township———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Crystal Lake Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Frankfort. 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 Frankfort’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,283 in 2025); our figure for Frankfort is 1,280 (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 Frankfort

Is Frankfort, MI safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Frankfort. The nearest Michigan towns with a grade are Manistee (C, 27 mi), Traverse City (C+, 32 mi), Manton (A−, 44 mi).

Who polices Frankfort?

Frankfort’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Frankfort”. 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.