ZIP 48214, Detroit, MI Violent Crime Rates and Maps
ZIP 48214 is in Detroit, about 3 miles northeast of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in ZIP 48214?
ZIP 48214 grades F for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 98% of Americans live. Assaults make up 93% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Detroit as a whole grades F for violent crime.
F
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 0 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
2% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than ZIP 48214 as a whole, and 98% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. ZIP 48214 scores 0.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in ZIP 48214, Detroit, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in ZIP 48214 in Detroit, 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 about violent crime in ZIP 48214
Aggravated assaults run high. ZIP 48214 has aggravated assaults at more than triple the US rate: 12.5 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
How ZIP 48214 compares within Detroit
High violent crime is widespread across ZIP 48214: 89% of residents live in areas graded D or F, and 5% in areas graded A or B. Violent crime grades across ZIP 48214 run from B+ to F.
89%
A or B 5%C 6%D or F 89%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
ZIP 48214 has less violent crime than 14 of the 25 ZIP codes in Detroit. It covers much of the Elmwood Park, Downtown Detroit, and Lafayette Park areas and the Morningside, St Jean, and Kettering-Butzel areas.
Is violent crime going up in Detroit?
Reported violent crime in Detroit as a whole peaked in 2021 and has fallen 21% since, back near its 2019 level. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 19 to 18 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
DetroitUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Detroit. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Detroit
Violent, US
2016
+4%
+4%
2017
+5%
+4%
2018
+3%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+17%
+4%
2021
+17%
+6%
2022
+3%
+5%
2023
+2%
+2%
2024
-8%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in ZIP 48214
CrimeGrade™ estimates ZIP 48214 has about 38 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and 16% less than Detroit as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in ZIP 48214, about 93% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Detroit
The Detroit Police Department polices ZIP 48214; these figures cover Detroit as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Detroit as a whole, 64% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 40% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (64%)
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.
Violent crime in ZIP 48214 and nearby ZIP codes
Of the 10 ZIP codes closest to ZIP 48214, 7 have less violent crime. ZIP 48230 and ZIP 48226 have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from ZIP 48214. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with ZIP codes of similar size and density, ZIP 48214 has more violent crime than 98% of them.
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs ZIP 48214 about $126 million a year, or $6,776 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $23 million, or $1,224 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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
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.
