The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Three Rivers, MI
Three Rivers is a city of 16,900 in St. Joseph County, about 35 miles northeast of downtown South Bend · Updated November 2026
Is Three Rivers, MI safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Three Rivers is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Three Rivers sits near the middle: 52% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 48% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades A- and property crime A. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Three Rivers run from A+ to B-, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 845 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
52% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Three Rivers as a whole, and 48% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Three Rivers scores 845.
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 Three Rivers, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Three Rivers, 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 Three Rivers
Aggravated assault stands out among A-graded cities. For the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 1.2 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents; Three Rivers has 3.2.
The safest and least safe parts of Three Rivers
Every part of Three Rivers where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Three Rivers run from A+ to B-; 51% 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 Three Rivers, the northwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Crime rates and types in Three Rivers
CrimeGrade™ estimates Three Rivers has about 40 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 8% more than the US as a whole and 17% 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.
The largest share of crime reported in Three Rivers is assault, about 39% of the total. It also makes up the largest share of what crime costs here.
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 Three Rivers
Three Rivers has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Three Rivers, 64% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Car thefts happen most often at homes: 38% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (64%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (38%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (49%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Aggravated assault
Homes (80%)
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 Three Rivers compares with nearby cities
Three Rivers has the most crime of its 5 nearest cities.
Parking lots, night lighting and walkability in Three Rivers
Two things set Three Rivers apart: it has 3.2 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 51% of the land where people live lit at night, against 78% nationally. Places with a lot of parking-lot space tend to report more theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.2 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 87% of US city residents
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.51% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 87% 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. 85% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (13 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 67% 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.2% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 86% 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 Three Rivers: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.32 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 67% 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 Three Rivers
Crime costs Three Rivers about $1,129 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 6% 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 $23 million a year, or $1,355 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.0 million
$62
Rape
$440,000
$26
Robbery
$110,000
$7
Assault
$3.1 million
$181
Burglary
$310,000
$19
Theft
$1.3 million
$78
Vehicle theft
$550,000
$32
Arson
$58,000
$3
Vandalism
$530,000
$31
Total
$7.4 million
$439
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 Three Rivers 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 Three Rivers, MI average a SchoolGrade of B-: 40% of students test proficient, against 34% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Three Rivers on SchoolGrade
