Bach is a neighborhood of 18,400 residents in Ann Arbor, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Bach?
Violent crime in Bach sits near the national middle: an A-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 56% of Americans live. Assaults make up 93% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Ann Arbor as a whole grades A for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 834 of 1,000About as much violent crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
44% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Bach as a whole, and 56% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Bach scores 834.
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 Bach, Ann Arbor, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Bach in Ann Arbor, 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 Bach
Reported rape is the exception. Bach grades A- for violent crime, but reported rape grades B-, worse than in the neighborhoods where 86% of Americans live.
How Bach compares within Ann Arbor
Every part of Bach where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Bach run from A to A-.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Bach has less violent crime than 3 of the 16 neighborhoods in Ann Arbor. It covers much of the Bach and Burns Park areas.
Is violent crime going up in Ann Arbor?
Reported violent crime in Ann Arbor as a whole has risen 10% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.6 to 2.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Ann ArborUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Ann Arbor. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Ann Arbor
Violent, US
2016
-34%
+4%
2017
-17%
+4%
2018
-12%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-7%
+4%
2021
+12%
+6%
2022
+17%
+5%
2023
+14%
+2%
2024
+10%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Bach
CrimeGrade™ estimates Bach has about 16 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 21% more than the US as a whole and 76% more than Ann Arbor 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 Bach, 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 Ann Arbor
The Ann Arbor Police Department polices Bach; these figures cover Ann Arbor as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Ann Arbor as a whole, 43% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 48% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (43%)
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 Bach and nearby neighborhoods
Bach has more violent crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Angells and Lakewood have the least violent crime nearby.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Bach apart: it has 3.0 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and 45 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 robbery than places with only one of them.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.3.0 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 95% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Bach: B- (49 of 100).45 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 85% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 assault. 55% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (68 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.78 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 83% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 violent crime costs Bach
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Bach about $18 million a year, or $1,004 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $4.7 million, or $253 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. Bach is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse 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.
