East Grand Rapids has an overall crime rate of 11 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in East Grand Rapids is 1 in 88. How does East Grand Rapids fare compared to other communities in Michigan of all population sizes? East Grand Rapids's crime rate is lower than approximately 40% of Michigan communities.

How does the crime rate in East Grand Rapids compare to similar sized communities across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared East Grand Rapids with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether East Grand Rapids's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate; not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.

Now let us turn to take a look at how East Grand Rapids does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in East Grand Rapids.

For East Grand Rapids, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in East Grand Rapids than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 5701, which is a violent crime rate of 0 per one thousand inhabitants.

NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that East Grand Rapids's rate for property crime is 11 per one thousand population. This makes East Grand Rapids a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in East Grand Rapids is one in 90.