Photo: The original uploader was Decumanus at English Wikipedia. · CC BY-SA 3.0St. Clair Shores sits near the middle of U.S. towns for recorded crime
None of the 3 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. St. Clair Shores’s Safety Grade, B− (#135 of 266 graded towns in Michigan), rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: close to the middle of U.S. towns. The local count comes to 1.9 violent crimes and 9.7 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 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 St. Clair Shores
St. Clair Shores reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 4 Michigan towns on St. Clair Shores’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Clinton Township (C), Eastpointe (D), Roseville (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 St. Clair Shores’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds St. Clair Shores’ grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (1.9) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) 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 | St. Clair Shores | Rest of Michigan | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.8 | 5.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.5 | 5.8 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.9 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.3 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
St. Clair Shores’ police reported 325 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.9 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 St. Clair Shores 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | St. Clair Shores property | Rest of Michigan property | St. Clair Shores violent | Rest of Michigan violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.8 | 18.8 | 1.8 | 5.8 |
| 2023 | 10.3 | 19.5 | 1.5 | 5.8 |
| 2024 | 10.7 | 17.4 | 1.9 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 8.0 | 15.7 | 2.3 | 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.
598 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.
134 violent and 464 property, as reported to the FBI by St. Clair Shores’ police.
14 people died in crashes on St. Clair Shores’s roads in 2019–2023
St. Clair Shores had 11 fatal crashes in five years, in which 14 people died; 2 were pedestrians. Most of these deaths (8 of 14) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is 4.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, about the same as 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.
St. Clair Shores and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Clair Shores | B− | 1.9 | 9.7 |
| Roseville | D | 5.1 | 33.7 |
| Eastpointe | D | 7.0 | 23.4 |
| Clinton Township | C | 3.1 | 14.1 |
| 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| St. Clair Shores | B− | 1.9 | 9.7 |
| Royal Oak | B | 1.4 | 8.2 |
| Dearborn Heights | C | 4.2 | 13.6 |
| Kentwood | D | 4.9 | 22.6 |
| Taylor | D | 7.7 | 19.8 |
| Pontiac | D | 9.6 | 16.4 |
The five graded Michigan towns closest to St. Clair Shores’ population (57,872), 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 St. Clair Shores. 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 St. Clair Shores’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (57,908 in 2025); our figure for St. Clair Shores is 57,872 (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 St. Clair Shores
Is St. Clair Shores, MI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, St. Clair Shores reports less crime per resident than 53% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #135 of 266 in Michigan. Its police reported 1.9 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 St. Clair Shores?
1.9 violent and 9.7 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.
How many homicides were there in St. Clair Shores in 2025?
St. Clair Shores’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 1.7 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is St. Clair Shores safer than Roseville?
Roseville reports more crime per resident than St. Clair Shores: Roseville grades D for safety and St. Clair Shores B−. Roseville’s police reported 5.1 violent and 33.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices St. Clair Shores?
St. Clair Shores’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “St. Clair Shores”. 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.