Frank A. and Rae E. Harris Kramer House · Photo: Andrew Jameson · CC BY-SA 3.0Per resident, Gaylord records more crime than 90% of U.S. towns
For every 1,000 residents, 4.9 violent crimes and 29.1 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Michigan, the figures are 5.4 and 17.4. Graded on crimes Gaylord’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it scores D for safety: #231 of 266 graded towns in Michigan.
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 Gaylord
A job center
Gaylord has 5,519 jobs based in town for 4,444 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Gaylord’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Crime in Gaylord 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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Gaylord | Rest of Michigan | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.1 | 5.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.0 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 4.3 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Gaylord’s police reported 65 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.4 in the rest of Michigan and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Gaylord property | Rest of Michigan property | Gaylord violent | Rest of Michigan violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 34.3 | 18.7 | 5.1 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 24.4 | 19.4 | 5.5 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 33.8 | 17.4 | 5.0 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 29.1 | 15.6 | 4.3 | 5.1 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Michigan.
149 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.
19 violent and 130 property, as reported to the FBI by Gaylord’s police.
Three people died in crashes on Gaylord’s roads in 2019–2023
Gaylord had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died. Most of these deaths (2 of 3) 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 Gaylord’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Gaylord’s own rate (13.8) 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.
Gaylord and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaylord | D | 4.9 | 29.1 |
| Bagley Township | — | — | — |
| Livingston Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Bagley Township and Livingston Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Michigan towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gaylord | D | 4.9 | 29.1 |
| Wolverine Lake | A+ | 0.3 | 2.2 |
| Somerset Township | A | 0.3 | 5.8 |
| Metamora Township | A− | 1.3 | 2.7 |
| Hancock | B+ | 1.5 | 4.4 |
| Bloomfield Hills | B+ | 1.0 | 7.3 |
The five graded Michigan towns closest to Gaylord’s population (4,444), 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 Gaylord. 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 Gaylord’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,467 in 2025); our figure for Gaylord is 4,444 (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 Gaylord
Is Gaylord, MI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Gaylord reports more crime per resident than 90% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #231 of 266 in Michigan. Its police reported 4.9 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 Gaylord?
4.9 violent and 29.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Michigan reports 5.4 and 17.4; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Gaylord?
Gaylord’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Gaylord”. 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.