Grand Rapids Crime Map
Michigan · October 2026 · updated 2026-11-12
| October 2026 | 5,036 incidents |
|---|---|
| 2026 YTD | 47,200 incidents through October |
| 2025 (full year) | 53,812 incidents |
| Full archive | 224,636 incidents (2023–2026) |
Source: Grand Rapids Police Department open data.
About crime in Grand Rapids
Latest available snapshot. Grand Rapids has 5,036 incidents for October 2026. Counts reflect the source coverage published for this city.
Year-over-year context
Grand Rapids recorded 56,986 incidents in 2024 and 53,812 in 2025, a 5.6% decrease. Year-to-year comparisons depend on consistent source coverage and reporting definitions.
2025 category breakdown
| Other | 41,258 |
| Assault | 4,724 |
| Theft | 2,786 |
| Vandalism | 1,418 |
| Theft from vehicle | 1,202 |
| Fraud | 612 |
| Burglary | 599 |
| Auto theft | 517 |
Across 2023–2026, the current archive contains 224,636 incidents for Grand Rapids. Missing categories or periods reflect what the source publishes; missing is not zero.
Grand Rapids crime overview
Essay updated 2026-11-12 · figures above are from the latest data
TL;DR. Grand Rapids police reported 53,812 incidents in 2025, down 5.6% from 56,986 in 2024. Other was the most reported category with 41,258 incidents, accounting for 76.7% of the total, followed by assault with 4,724 reports. Violent-category incidents totaled 5,420, or 10.1% of all reports. Data through October 2026 shows January–October 2026 up 3.4% over the same months in 2025. The archive holds 224,636 incidents from 2023 to 2026.
About this data
TheCrimeMaps view for Grand Rapids, Michigan displays police-reported incidents from the Grand Rapids Police Department, mapped by where each report was recorded and grouped by offense category. The display covers calendar year 2025, with 12 months of data, and reflects reports as published in the department's open-data file through October 2026.
In 2025, Grand Rapids recorded 53,812 police-reported incidents. Of that total, 5,420 incidents, or 10.1%, were in violent categories covering assault, sexual assault, robbery, shooting and homicide. The most reported group was Other with 41,258 incidents, or 76.7%, followed by Assault with 4,724 incidents, or 8.8%, and Theft with 2,786 incidents, or 5.2%. The archive for 2023 to 2026 holds 224,636 incidents across all years in the archive combined.
Recent trend
Reported incidents fell 5.6% between the two complete calendar years, from 56,986 in 2024 to 53,812 in 2025. That follows 66,638 incidents in 2023, showing lower totals in each of the three complete years from 2023 to 2025. For the current window, January–October 2026 recorded 47,200 incidents, a 3.4% increase compared with 45,648 in the same months of 2025. The year-to-date comparison uses the same January–October period in both years. The 2025 total reflects 12 months of data, while the 2026 figure covers only January through October as listed in the year-to-date comparison.
Category breakdown
Other accounted for 41,258 incidents, or 76.7% of the 53,812 incidents in 2025. Within Other, Other crime made up 39,230 incidents, or 72.9% of the total, followed by Drugs with 868 incidents, or 1.6%, Weapons offenses with 537 incidents, or 1%, Threats with 505 incidents, or 0.9%, and Impaired & dangerous driving with 118 incidents, or 0.2%. After Other, Assault ranked second with 4,724 incidents, or 8.8%, and Theft ranked third with 2,786 incidents, or 5.2%. Vandalism added 1,418 incidents, or 2.6%, while Theft from vehicle added 1,202 incidents, or 2.2%, and Fraud added 612 incidents, or 1.1% in Grand Rapids in 2025.
What this means
Grand Rapids recorded 53,812 incidents in 2025, down from 66,638 in 2023 and 56,986 in 2024. What stands out is the concentration in one group: Other accounted for 41,258 incidents, or 76.7%. By comparison, Assault totaled 4,724 incidents, or 8.8%, and Theft totaled 2,786 incidents, or 5.2%, with Vandalism at 1,418 incidents, or 2.6%, Theft from vehicle at 1,202 incidents, or 2.2%, and Fraud at 612 incidents, or 1.1%.
FAQ
How many incidents were reported in Grand Rapids in 2025?
Grand Rapids recorded 53,812 police-reported incidents in calendar year 2025, which covers 12 months of complete data. The total includes 41,258 incidents grouped as Other, 4,724 assaults, and 2,786 thefts. Violent-category incidents, defined as assault plus sexual assault, robbery, shooting, and homicide, totaled 5,420 in 2025, or 10.1% of the yearly total.
What was the most reported crime category in Grand Rapids in 2025?
Other was the most reported category in 2025, with 41,258 incidents, or 76.7% of the 53,812 total. Within Other, Other crime accounted for 39,230 incidents, or 72.9% of the total, followed by Drugs with 868, Weapons offenses with 537, Threats with 505, and Impaired & dangerous driving with 118. Assault was the next largest separate category with 4,724 incidents.
Did reported incidents in Grand Rapids increase or decrease from 2024 to 2025?
Reported incidents decreased from 2024 to 2025 on a complete-year basis. The city recorded 53,812 incidents in 2025 compared with 56,986 in 2024, a change of -5.6% across two consecutive complete calendar years. The longer series also shows 66,638 incidents in 2023. Figures for 2026 cover only January–October and are not compared as a full-year change.
Which Grand Rapids neighborhoods had the most reported incidents in 2025?
This dataset does not rank named neighborhoods by incidents in 2025, with 0 named neighborhoods listed for that ranking. The 53,812 incidents for 2025 are therefore presented as a citywide total rather than broken out by neighborhood. The archive covering 2023 through 2026 contains 224,636 incidents combined, also reported without a neighborhood ranking for 2025.
Where does the Grand Rapids crime data come from?
The figures come from the Grand Rapids Police Department, which is the upstream open-data source for this page. That source accounts for the 53,812 incidents in 2025 and the 224,636 incidents in the all-years archive covering 2023 through 2026. Category counts, including 2,786 thefts and 1,418 cases of Vandalism in 2025, are as reported by that source.
How up to date is the Grand Rapids crime data?
Data is current through October 2026. The headline period is the complete calendar year 2025 with 53,812 incidents across 12 months. More recent partial data shows 47,200 incidents in January–October 2026, compared with 45,648 in the same months of 2025, a change of 3.4% on a same-months basis. The all-years archive from 2023 through 2026 contains 224,636 incidents.
Explore Grand Rapids
By category
- Grand Rapids Assault (18,228)
- Grand Rapids Sexual assault (1,963)
- Grand Rapids Robbery (775)
- Grand Rapids Homicide (63)
- Grand Rapids Burglary (2,636)
- Grand Rapids Auto theft (2,783)
- Grand Rapids Theft from vehicle (4,898)
- Grand Rapids Theft (10,011)
- Grand Rapids Vandalism (5,808)
- Grand Rapids Fraud (2,438)
- Grand Rapids Other (175,033)
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