Photo: Ajay Suresh · CC BY 4.0Fewer crimes per resident are recorded in Rochester Hills than in 77% of U.S. towns
Violent crime here is lower than in 76% of U.S. towns; property crime, lower than in 72%. Add to that, from 2023 to 2025, crimes Rochester Hills’ police reported put it at A− for safety: #52 of 266 graded towns in Michigan. The yearly rates were 0.7 violent crime and 6.4 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, set against 5.5 and 17.6 in the rest of Michigan. The graded rate fell 18% from 2023 to 2025.
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 Rochester Hills
3 of the 6 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 6 Michigan towns on Rochester Hills’ borders, 6 have a Safety Grade: Oakland Township (A+), Rochester (A), Orion Township (A), Shelby Township (B+), Troy (B), Auburn Hills (C−). Neighbors ↓
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 Rochester Hills’ 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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Rochester Hills | Rest of Michigan | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.7 | 5.8 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 5.5 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Rochester Hills’ police reported 173 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.5 in the rest of Michigan and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Rochester Hills property | Rest of Michigan property | Rochester Hills violent | Rest of Michigan violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 6.7 | 18.9 | 0.7 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 7.7 | 19.6 | 0.7 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 5.3 | 17.5 | 0.9 | 5.5 |
| 2025 | 6.3 | 15.7 | 0.6 | 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 Rochester Hills 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.
545 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.
49 violent and 496 property, as reported to the FBI by Rochester Hills’ police.
Nine people died in crashes on Rochester Hills’s roads in 2019–2023
Rochester Hills had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which nine people died; 3 were pedestrians.
That is fewer than is typical for Michigan towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.3 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Rochester Hills’s size would see about 20 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Rochester Hills’s own rate (2.3) 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.
Rochester Hills and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester Hills | A− | 0.7 | 6.4 |
| Rochester | A | 0.3 | 3.3 |
| Oakland Township | A+ | 0.5 | 1.8 |
| Shelby Township | B+ | 1.5 | 5.4 |
| Auburn Hills | C− | 3.2 | 20.2 |
| Troy | B | 1.0 | 12.0 |
| Orion Township | A | 0.5 | 4.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Michigan towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rochester Hills | A− | 0.7 | 6.4 |
| Westland | C− | 4.6 | 13.9 |
| Wyoming | C− | 4.7 | 22.2 |
| Southfield | D | 5.4 | 25.0 |
| Flint | D | 12.2 | 13.4 |
| Kalamazoo | D− | 12.0 | 35.0 |
The five graded Michigan towns closest to Rochester Hills’ population (77,539), 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 Rochester Hills. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Rochester Hills’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (78,888 in 2025); our figure for Rochester Hills is 77,539 (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 Rochester Hills
Is Rochester Hills, MI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Rochester Hills reports less crime per resident than 77% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #52 of 266 in Michigan. Its police reported 0.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 5.5 in the rest of Michigan and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Rochester Hills?
0.7 violent and 6.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Michigan reports 5.5 and 17.6; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Rochester Hills in 2025?
Rochester Hills’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 1.3 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Rochester Hills safer than Rochester?
Rochester reports less crime per resident than Rochester Hills: Rochester grades A for safety and Rochester Hills A−. Rochester’s police reported 0.3 violent and 3.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Rochester Hills?
Rochester Hills’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Rochester Hills”. 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.