Grosse Pointe is a city of 8,720 in Wayne County, about 8 miles northeast of downtown Detroit · Updated November 2026
Is Grosse Pointe, MI safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B, Grosse Pointe has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 73% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades B+ and property crime B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Grosse Pointe run from A to F, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 657 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
27% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Grosse Pointe as a whole, and 73% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Grosse Pointe scores 657.
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 Grosse Pointe, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Grosse Pointe, 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 Grosse Pointe
Car thefts run high for a B-graded city. Grosse Pointe has 8.0 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a B-graded US city, the figure is 2.9.
Crime rates and types in Grosse Pointe
CrimeGrade™ estimates Grosse Pointe has about 62 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 66% more than the US as a whole and 79% more than 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 Grosse Pointe, about 40% 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 Grosse Pointe
Grosse Pointe has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 46% of them, against 18% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (46%)
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 Grosse Pointe compares with nearby cities
Grosse Pointe has less crime than 5 of its 10 nearest cities.
Two things set Grosse Pointe apart: it has 98 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 16.6 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft and robbery than places with only one of them; here theft sits near the national middle.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.98 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 96% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.16.6 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher 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 (38 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 87% of US city residents
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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
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Grosse Pointe: C- (28 of 100).8 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 80% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.1.0 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 78% 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 Grosse Pointe
Crime costs Grosse Pointe about $1,878 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 56% more than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $20 million a year, or $2,270 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.0 million
$115
Rape
$340,000
$40
Robbery
$170,000
$19
Assault
$2.1 million
$235
Burglary
$220,000
$25
Theft
$1.1 million
$126
Vehicle theft
$1.1 million
$122
Arson
$19,000
$2
Vandalism
$440,000
$50
Total
$6.4 million
$735
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 Grosse Pointe 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 Grosse Pointe, MI average a SchoolGrade of B: 46% of students test proficient, against 38% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Grosse Pointe on SchoolGrade
