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Safety in Lathrup Village · FBI data, 2023–2025

Recorded crime per resident in Lathrup Village fell 59% from 2023 to 2025

Lathrup Village’s overall Safety Grade is B (#123 of 266 graded towns in Michigan): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, the local count comes to 1.7 violent crimes and 9.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 5.4 and 17.5 in the rest of Michigan.

Violent crime
1.7
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of MI (5.4)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
9.6
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of MI (17.5)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
136
20 violent · 116 property
2023–2025
Trend
▼ Falling
2023 to 2025
beyond ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Lathrup Village

Reported crime is falling

Crime reported per resident fell 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Lathrup Village’s grade

Where Lathrup Village sits
B− Violent 1.7B Property 9.6
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 56%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Michigan towns we grade (266)Less crime than 54% · #123 of 266
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 44%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 136 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Lathrup Village anywhere from B− to B.

How TownRatings grades safety →

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; property crime is the stronger of the two.

Trend

Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025

Show as a table
YearLathrup Village propertyRest of Michigan propertyLathrup Village violentRest of Michigan violent
202211.218.70.75.7
202314.319.41.35.7
20249.817.42.35.4
20254.915.61.55.1

Crimes per 1,000 residents

Reported crime per resident fell 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

Violent crime, by year and by type

Lathrup Village’s police reported 20 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.4 in the rest of Michigan and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in Lathrup Village per 1,000 residents

Property crime (4.9)Violent crime (1.5)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Lathrup Village1.5
Rest of MI5.1
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Lathrup Village4.9
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.

What gets reported

26 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft15
Burglary1
Vehicle theft4
Aggravated assault4
Robbery2
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
6
violent crimes
20
property crimes

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

6 violent and 20 property, as reported to the FBI by Lathrup Village’s police.

On the roads

Two people died in crashes on Lathrup Village’s roads in 2019–2023

Lathrup Village had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died. Most of these deaths (1 of 2) 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 Lathrup Village’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Lathrup Village’s own rate (9.9) is context, not a ranking.

2
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
9.9
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

Lathrup Village and its neighbors

Lathrup Village
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Lathrup VillageB1.79.6

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Michigan towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
Lathrup VillageB1.79.6
Marine CityB2.84.8
OtsegoB−2.79.6
VicksburgC2.915.9
Roosevelt ParkD2.152.1
South HavenD−6.857.4

The five graded Michigan towns closest to Lathrup Village’s population (4,019), by grade.

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 Lathrup Village. 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 Lathrup Village’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,064 in 2025); our figure for Lathrup Village is 4,019 (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 Lathrup Village

Is Lathrup Village, MI safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Lathrup Village reports less crime per resident than 56% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #123 of 266 in Michigan. Its police reported 1.7 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 Lathrup Village?

1.7 violent and 9.6 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 Lathrup Village?

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