The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Grosse Pointe Park, MI
Grosse Pointe Park is a city of 11,300 in Wayne County, about 7 miles northeast of downtown Detroit · Updated November 2026
Is Grosse Pointe Park, MI safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+, Grosse Pointe Park has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 66% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A- against B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Grosse Pointe Park run from A to B-, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 733 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
34% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Grosse Pointe Park as a whole, and 66% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Grosse Pointe Park scores 733.
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 Park, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Grosse Pointe Park, 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 Park
Burglary is a strength. Grosse Pointe Park grades B- for property crime, but burglary grades A, better than in the neighborhoods where 63% of Americans live.
Simple assaults are uncommon. Grosse Pointe Park has simple assaults at a small fraction of the US rate: 2.0 a year per 1,000 residents, against 9.7 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Grosse Pointe Park
Every part of Grosse Pointe Park where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Grosse Pointe Park run from A to B-; 21% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Grosse Pointe Park, the east side has the least crime and the northwest side the most.
Is crime going up in Grosse Pointe Park?
Reported property crime in Grosse Pointe Park has held about steady since 2019, within 3%. Too few violent crimes are reported here each year for a reliable violent crime trend. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts stayed at about 15 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 12%.
Property crime, change since 2019
Grosse Pointe ParkUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Grosse Pointe Park. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Grosse Pointe Park
Property, US
2016
+29%
+15%
2017
-1%
+12%
2018
+6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-29%
-8%
2021
-38%
-10%
2022
-2%
-6%
2023
+17%
-7%
2024
+3%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Grosse Pointe Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Grosse Pointe Park has about 22 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 41% less than the US as a whole and 37% less 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 makes up about 42% of crime reported in Grosse Pointe Park. Vehicle theft is less common but 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 Park
Grosse Pointe Park has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 57% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Car theft
Homes (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Homes (57%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (62%)
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 Park compares with nearby cities
Grosse Pointe Park has less crime than 6 of its 10 nearest cities.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Grosse Pointe Park. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Grosse Pointe Park has more crime than 80% of them.
Jobs, parking lots and walkability in Grosse Pointe Park
Two things set Grosse Pointe Park apart: it has 10 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 0.4 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report less theft and robbery, yet theft runs higher here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.10 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 97% of US city residents
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.0.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Lower than for 93% 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. 59% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (36 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 86% 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
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.5.5 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 90% 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 Park: D+ (25 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 61% 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 Park
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Grosse Pointe Park about $633 a year per household, 47% less 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 $7.7 million a year, or $682 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$480,000
$43
Rape
$190,000
$17
Robbery
$120,000
$11
Assault
$340,000
$30
Burglary
$92,000
$8
Theft
$530,000
$47
Vehicle theft
$920,000
$81
Arson
$13,000
$1
Vandalism
$260,000
$23
Total
$2.9 million
$260
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 Park 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. Grosse Pointe Park is the other kind of example: few people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks lower than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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 Park, MI average a SchoolGrade of B+: 49% of students test proficient, against 42% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Grosse Pointe Park on SchoolGrade
