The crimes the grade counts fell 73% per resident in Mattawan from 2023 to 2025
On property crime it beats 56% of U.S. towns; on violent crime, only 16%. In sum, crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025 put Mattawan at C (#170 of 266 graded towns in Michigan): more crime per resident than 67% of U.S. towns. Even so, for every 1,000 residents, 4.2 violent crimes and 9.6 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Michigan, the figures are 5.4 and 17.5.
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 Mattawan
A job center
Mattawan has 3,443 jobs based in town for 2,934 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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.
What’s behind Mattawan’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Mattawan’s grade up; violent crime pulls it down.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Mattawan property | Rest of Michigan property | Mattawan violent | Rest of Michigan violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.5 | 18.7 | 13.5 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 17.5 | 19.4 | 4.7 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 8.1 | 17.4 | 5.7 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 3.7 | 15.6 | 2.4 | 5.1 |
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.
Crime in Mattawan 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 2 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 | Mattawan | Rest of Michigan | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 13.5 | 5.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 4.7 | 5.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.7 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.4 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mattawan’s police reported 36 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 4.2 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.4 in the rest of Michigan and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
18 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.
7 violent and 11 property, as reported to the FBI by Mattawan’s police.
One person died in crashes on Mattawan’s roads in 2019–2023
Mattawan 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 Mattawan’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mattawan’s own rate (7.4) 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.
Mattawan and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mattawan | C | 4.2 | 9.6 |
| Texas Township | — | — | — |
| Antwerp Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Texas Township and Antwerp Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Michigan towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mattawan | C | 4.2 | 9.6 |
| Rogers City | A | 0.7 | 3.0 |
| Corunna | A− | 1.2 | 3.0 |
| Lake Orion | B+ | 2.0 | 3.2 |
| Bad Axe | B− | 2.0 | 11.7 |
| Fowlerville | C | 1.8 | 23.4 |
The five graded Michigan towns closest to Mattawan’s population (2,934), 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 Mattawan. 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 Mattawan’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,954 in 2025); our figure for Mattawan is 2,934 (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 Mattawan
Is Mattawan, MI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mattawan reports more crime per resident than 67% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #170 of 266 in Michigan. Its police reported 4.2 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 Mattawan?
4.2 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 Mattawan?
Mattawan’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mattawan”. 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.