Photo: Dwight Burdette · CC BY 3.0Ypsilanti sees more crime per resident than 94% of U.S. towns
It has more violent crime than 96% of U.S. towns, and more property crime than 88%. That puts it at D for safety, judged on crimes Ypsilanti’s police reported from 2023 to 2025: #242 of 266 graded towns in Michigan. The local count comes to 8.4 violent crimes and 26.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 5.4 and 17.4 in the rest of Michigan. The graded rate fell 16% 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 Ypsilanti
A college town
Ypsilanti is home to Eastern Michigan University, with 11,014 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 29% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. 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 Ypsilanti’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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Ypsilanti | Rest of Michigan | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.6 | 5.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 10.3 | 5.7 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 6.6 | 5.4 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 8.4 | 5.1 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Ypsilanti’s police reported 493 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 8.4 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 per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Ypsilanti property | Rest of Michigan property | Ypsilanti violent | Rest of Michigan violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 28.2 | 18.7 | 10.6 | 5.7 |
| 2023 | 30.9 | 19.4 | 10.3 | 5.7 |
| 2024 | 23.8 | 17.4 | 6.6 | 5.4 |
| 2025 | 26.1 | 15.6 | 8.4 | 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 Ypsilanti 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 8 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
691 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.
168 violent and 523 property, as reported to the FBI by Ypsilanti’s police.
Three people died in crashes on Ypsilanti’s roads in 2019–2023
Ypsilanti had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 1 was a pedestrian. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is about what is typical for Michigan towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (6.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Ypsilanti’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Ypsilanti’s own rate (3.0) 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.
Ypsilanti and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ypsilanti | D | 8.4 | 26.9 |
| Ypsilanti Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Ypsilanti Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Michigan towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ypsilanti | D | 8.4 | 26.9 |
| Green Oak Township | A | 0.7 | 3.9 |
| Monroe | C | 5.4 | 10.5 |
| Adrian | C− | 5.4 | 19.5 |
| Genesee Township | D | 7.6 | 15.0 |
| Mount Morris Township | D | 10.9 | 17.3 |
The five graded Michigan towns closest to Ypsilanti’s population (19,766), 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 Ypsilanti. 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 Ypsilanti’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (20,055 in 2025); our figure for Ypsilanti is 19,766 (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 Ypsilanti
Is Ypsilanti, MI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Ypsilanti reports more crime per resident than 94% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade and #242 of 266 in Michigan. Its police reported 8.4 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 Ypsilanti?
8.4 violent and 26.9 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.
Who polices Ypsilanti?
Ypsilanti’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Ypsilanti”. 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.