Photo: Dave Parker · CC BY 3.0Southfield records more crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns
Of the 5 towns on its borders with figures, 4 record less crime per resident. What’s more, from 2023 to 2025, crimes Southfield’s police reported put it at D for safety: #230 of 266 graded towns in Michigan. In a usual year, 5.4 violent crimes and 25.0 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Michigan, 5.4 and 17.4.
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 Southfield
4 of the 5 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 7 Michigan towns on Southfield’s borders, 5 have a Safety Grade: Beverly Hills (A−), Franklin (B+), Farmington Hills (B), Oak Park (C−), Detroit (D−). Southfield Township and Bingham Farms have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
A job center
Southfield has 88,414 jobs based in town for 76,111 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 Southfield’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; property crime is the closer of the two to typical.
Crime in Southfield 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 6 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 | Southfield | Rest of Michigan | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.0 | 5.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.4 | 5.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.9 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 5.8 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Southfield’s police reported 1,224 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 5.4 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 | Southfield property | Rest of Michigan property | Southfield violent | Rest of Michigan violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 26.4 | 18.6 | 5.0 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 27.6 | 19.3 | 5.4 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 24.2 | 17.3 | 4.9 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 23.1 | 15.5 | 5.8 | 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.
2,225 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.
448 violent and 1,777 property, as reported to the FBI by Southfield’s police.
36 people died in crashes on Southfield’s roads in 2019–2023
Southfield had 34 fatal crashes in five years, in which 36 people died; 13 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist. 2 died in crashes on an Interstate.
That is 9.4 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above the median for Michigan towns of 25,000–100,000 people (5.3, 77 towns).
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.
Southfield and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southfield | D | 5.4 | 25.0 |
| Southfield Township | — | — | — |
| Beverly Hills | A− | 0.6 | 5.8 |
| Bingham Farms | — | — | — |
| Oak Park | C− | 3.4 | 20.4 |
| Franklin | B+ | 1.1 | 6.8 |
| Farmington Hills | B | 1.7 | 8.6 |
| Detroit | D− | 18.2 | 43.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Southfield Township and Bingham Farms have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Michigan towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southfield | D | 5.4 | 25.0 |
| Rochester Hills | A− | 0.7 | 6.4 |
| Shelby Township | B+ | 1.5 | 5.4 |
| Wyoming | C− | 4.7 | 22.2 |
| Flint | D | 12.2 | 13.4 |
| Kalamazoo | D− | 12.0 | 35.0 |
The five graded Michigan towns closest to Southfield’s population (76,111), 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 Southfield. 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 Southfield’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (76,992 in 2025); our figure for Southfield is 76,111 (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 Southfield
Is Southfield, MI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Southfield reports more crime per resident than 89% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #230 of 266 in Michigan. Its police reported 5.4 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 Southfield?
5.4 violent and 25.0 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.
How many homicides were there in Southfield in 2025?
Southfield’s police reported 6 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 7.8 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Southfield safer than Beverly Hills?
Beverly Hills reports less crime per resident than Southfield: Beverly Hills grades A− for safety and Southfield D. Beverly Hills’s police reported 0.6 violent and 5.8 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Southfield?
Southfield’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Southfield”. 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.