City overview
Grand Rapids
39 neighborhoods covered by the Grand Rapids police open-data feed. Browse a specific area below or jump into the live app.
Citywide Safety Index
Grand Rapids (citywide) reports higher per-capita rates than the FBI national rate. Use the cards below to see which category drives the gap.
persons: 969/100k vs FBI 379.5/100k (+155%)property: 1900/100k vs FBI 1934.1/100k (-2%)
Source: FBI UCR national rate per 100k (2023 revised, per CIUS 2024) · newest report Jun 1, 2026
Compare Grand Rapids to another city
Pick a city to render its citywide safety card below — both compared to the FBI national average.
Neighborhoods
- Alger Heights
- Baxter
- Belknap Lookout
- Black Hills
- Creston
- Downtown
- East Hills
- Eastern-Burton
- Eastgate
- Eastown
- Fulton Heights
- Garfield Park
- Grandville
- Heritage Hill
- Highland Park
- John Ball Park
- ken-O-Sha Park
- Lake Eastbrook
- Leffingwell-Twin Lakes
- Michigan Oaks
- Midtown
- Millbank
- North End
- North Park
- Northeast
- Oldtown-Heartside
- Ottawa Hills
- Richmond-Oakleigh
- Ridgemoor
- Ridgemoor Park
- Roosevelt Park
- Seeds of Promise
- Shangrai-La
- Shawmut Hills
- Shawnee Park
- Southeast Community
- Southeast End
- Southwest
- West Grand
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How to read this: CommunitySafe summarizes publicly published police reports. Scores reflect historical reporting only — not predictions of future risk, and not a substitute for professional safety advice. These scores should not be used as the sole basis for housing, lending, insurance, or hiring decisions — verify each statistic with the cited official source before acting on it. See /methodology for how the index is computed.
About Grand Rapids safety data
This overview aggregates Grand Rapids's official police open-data feed across 39 neighborhoods and compares it to the FBI Crime Data Explorer 2023 national rate per 100,000 residents. Grand Rapids currently carries a citywide Safety Index of D. Grand Rapids (citywide) reports higher per-capita rates than the FBI national rate. Use the cards below to see which category drives the gap.
Use the neighborhood list above to drill into a specific area — every area has its own running incident timeline and category breakdown. Safety is local: a citywide grade smooths over real differences between neighborhoods, so we always recommend reading the area you actually care about rather than the headline number. For the full data sourcing, population normalization, and grade thresholds, see our methodology. To compare Grand Rapids against another metro, use the comparison tool above.