The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Wyoming, MI
Wyoming is a city of 66,000 in Kent County, about 5 miles south of downtown Grand Rapids · Updated November 2026
Is Wyoming, MI safe?
With an overall CrimeGrade™ of B, Wyoming has moderate crime by national standards. Most US neighborhoods have less: 73% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, B+ against B-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Wyoming run from A to D, so check the map below.
B
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 656 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
27% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Wyoming as a whole, and 73% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Wyoming scores 656.
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 Wyoming, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Wyoming, 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 Wyoming
Reported rape stands out among B-graded cities. For the typical resident of a B-graded US city, the figure is 0.42 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; Wyoming has 0.94.
The safest and least safe parts of Wyoming
Low crime is the norm across Wyoming: 72% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 1% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Wyoming run from A to D; 9% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
72%27%
A or B 72%C 27%D or F 1%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Wyoming, the southwest side has the least crime and the north side the most.
Is crime going up in Wyoming?
Reported violent crime in Wyoming peaked in 2021 and has fallen 17% since, back near its 2019 level. Property crime is up 42% from 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 4.9 to 4.7 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 15 to 21 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime fell 17%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
WyomingUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Wyoming. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Wyoming
Violent, US
Property, Wyoming
Property, US
2016
-4%
+4%
+56%
+15%
2017
-3%
+4%
+48%
+12%
2018
-4%
+0%
+32%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
+14%
+4%
+4%
-8%
2021
+16%
+6%
+0%
-10%
2022
+10%
+5%
+36%
-6%
2023
+1%
+2%
+71%
-7%
2024
-4%
-4%
+42%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Wyoming
CrimeGrade™ estimates Wyoming has about 55 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 48% more than the US as a whole and 60% 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 Wyoming is assault, about 46% 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.
The Wyoming Police Department's 2024 report of burglary had a month far out of line with the rest, a sign of a data-entry error or a catch-up month, so CrimeGrade™ set it aside and used the other months.
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 Wyoming
Wyoming has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Wyoming, 50% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 43% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (50%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Homes (35%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (43%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (41%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Stores and businesses (51%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (56%)
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 Wyoming compares with nearby cities
Wyoming has more crime than 7 of its 9 nearest cities. Jamestown and Byron Center have the least crime nearby.
Night lighting, parking lots and walkability in Wyoming
Two things set Wyoming apart: it has 3.4 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 7 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. 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, and they run 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
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 90% 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. 68% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (24 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 72% of US city residents
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.62 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 78% 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 Wyoming: D+ (24 of 100).7 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 76% of US city residents
Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.4.0% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 74% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Wyoming on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Wyoming
Crime costs Wyoming about $1,652 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 37% 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 $130 million a year, or $1,962 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$5.9 million
$90
Rape
$3.7 million
$57
Robbery
$1.1 million
$17
Assault
$18 million
$268
Burglary
$1.3 million
$20
Theft
$6.1 million
$93
Vehicle theft
$2.6 million
$39
Arson
$140,000
$2
Vandalism
$2.5 million
$38
Total
$41 million
$623
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 Wyoming 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 Wyoming, MI average a SchoolGrade of D: 32% of students test proficient, against 26% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Wyoming on SchoolGrade
