The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Dearborn, MI
Dearborn is the seventh-largest city in Michigan, with 107,600 residents in Wayne County, about 9 miles west of downtown Detroit · Updated November 2026
Is Dearborn, MI safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Dearborn is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Dearborn sits near the middle: 46% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 54% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B+. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Dearborn run from A+ to C+, so check the map or the safest and least safe neighborhoods below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 815 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
46% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Dearborn as a whole, and 54% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Dearborn scores 815.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Dearborn, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Dearborn, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Dearborn
Car thefts run high for an A-graded city. Dearborn has 4.5 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 0.93.
Burglaries are uncommon. Dearborn has burglaries at about half the US rate: 1.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.4 nationally.
The safest and most dangerous neighborhoods in Dearborn
Most of Dearborn grades well: 97% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Grades across Dearborn run from A+ to C+; 33% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
97%
A or B 97%C 3%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
1Snow Woods, southThefts run at less than half the rate in the rest of Dearborn.A890
2Fairlane Town Center, centralThefts run at about half the rate in the rest of Dearborn.A879
3Dearborn Hills, westAggravated assaults run at about half the rate in the rest of Dearborn.A878
5East Downtown Dearborn, eastBurglaries run about 30% higher here than in the rest of Dearborn.B+763
Neighborhood areas of Dearborn, ranked by overall CrimeGrade™; beside each grade is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer). Each one combines several of the smaller areas on the map.
Is crime going up in Dearborn?
Reported crime in Dearborn has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 11% and property crime down 12%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.2 to 2.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 22 to 20 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
DearbornUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Dearborn. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Dearborn
Violent, US
Property, Dearborn
Property, US
2016
+13%
+4%
+31%
+15%
2017
-16%
+4%
+7%
+12%
2018
+3%
+0%
-11%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-20%
+4%
-32%
-8%
2021
-1%
+6%
-28%
-10%
2022
-12%
+5%
-14%
-6%
2023
-6%
+2%
-3%
-7%
2024
-11%
-4%
-12%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Dearborn
CrimeGrade™ estimates Dearborn has about 35 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about the same as the US as a whole and close to Michigan.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Dearborn, about 39% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Dearborn
Dearborn has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Dearborn, 48% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 37% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (48%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (42%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (37%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (33%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (49%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (32%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Dearborn compares with nearby cities
Dearborn has less crime than 8 of its 10 nearest cities; only Allen Park and Garden City have less.
Two things set Dearborn apart: it has a Walk Grade of C+ (44 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 75 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more theft and assault, and assault runs high here.
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault.C+ (44 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 89% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.75 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 89% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.53% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 85% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 82% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.12.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 71% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Dearborn
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Dearborn about $1,077 a year per household, 11% less than the US figure of $1,205. The total is about $40 million a year.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost rises to about $101 million a year, or $942 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$3.3 million
$31
Rape
$1.8 million
$17
Robbery
$1.2 million
$11
Assault
$14 million
$135
Burglary
$1.1 million
$10
Theft
$7.7 million
$72
Vehicle theft
$7.5 million
$70
Arson
$360,000
$3
Vandalism
$2.4 million
$23
Total
$40 million
$371
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Dearborn means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Dearborn, MI average a SchoolGrade of D: 31% of students test proficient, against 28% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Dearborn on SchoolGrade
