Grosse Pointe Woods records less violent crime per head than 72% of U.S. towns
One of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. In sum, crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Grosse Pointe Woods at B (#128 of 266 graded towns in Michigan): close to the middle of U.S. towns. What’s more, the yearly rates were 0.9 violent crime and 13.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 5.4 and 17.5 in the rest of 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 Grosse Pointe Woods
1 of the 3 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 4 Michigan towns on Grosse Pointe Woods’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Grosse Pointe Farms (B), Harper Woods (D−), Detroit (D−). Village of Grosse Pointe Shores has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Grosse Pointe Woods’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Grosse Pointe Woods’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.1) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Grosse Pointe Woods | Rest of Michigan | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.8 | 5.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.9 | 5.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.0 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Grosse Pointe Woods’ police reported 42 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.9 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 Grosse Pointe Woods 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Grosse Pointe Woods property | Rest of Michigan property | Grosse Pointe Woods violent | Rest of Michigan violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.0 | 18.7 | 0.8 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 11.0 | 19.4 | 0.9 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 14.9 | 17.4 | 1.0 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 13.4 | 15.6 | 0.8 | 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.
225 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.
13 violent and 212 property, as reported to the FBI by Grosse Pointe Woods’ police.
No one died in a crash on Grosse Pointe Woods’s roads in 2019–2023
That is fewer than is typical for Michigan towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (6.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Grosse Pointe Woods’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Grosse Pointe Woods’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Grosse Pointe Woods and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grosse Pointe Woods | B | 0.9 | 13.1 |
| Harper Woods | D− | 6.5 | 45.6 |
| Detroit | D− | 18.2 | 43.0 |
| Grosse Pointe Farms | B | 0.6 | 12.2 |
| Village of Grosse Pointe Shores | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Village of Grosse Pointe Shores has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Michigan towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grosse Pointe Woods | B | 0.9 | 13.1 |
| Brandon Township | A | 0.6 | 2.0 |
| Berkley | A | 0.4 | 4.0 |
| DeWitt Township | B | 2.0 | 7.0 |
| Huron Township | B− | 2.9 | 5.3 |
| Traverse City | C+ | 4.0 | 7.7 |
The five graded Michigan towns closest to Grosse Pointe Woods’ population (15,792), 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 Grosse Pointe Woods. 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 Grosse Pointe Woods’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (15,768 in 2025); our figure for Grosse Pointe Woods is 15,792 (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 Grosse Pointe Woods
Is Grosse Pointe Woods, MI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Grosse Pointe Woods reports less crime per resident than 55% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #128 of 266 in Michigan. Its police reported 0.9 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 Grosse Pointe Woods?
0.9 violent and 13.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Michigan reports 5.4 and 17.5; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Grosse Pointe Woods safer than Harper Woods?
Harper Woods reports more crime per resident than Grosse Pointe Woods: Harper Woods grades D− for safety and Grosse Pointe Woods B. Harper Woods’s police reported 6.5 violent and 45.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Grosse Pointe Woods?
Grosse Pointe Woods’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Grosse Pointe Woods”. 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.