Eastside Lansing, Lansing, MI Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Eastside Lansing is a neighborhood of 14,500 residents in Lansing, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Eastside Lansing?
Violent crime is high in Eastside Lansing: a C+, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 85% of Americans live. Assaults make up 92% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Lansing as a whole grades C for violent crime.
C+
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 511 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
15% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Eastside Lansing as a whole, and 85% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Eastside Lansing scores 511.
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 Eastside Lansing, Lansing, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Eastside Lansing in Lansing, 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 Eastside Lansing
Reported rapes run high for a neighborhood with a C for violent crime. Eastside Lansing has 1.3 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US neighborhood graded C for violent crime, the figure is 0.44.
Aggravated assault at more than triple the US rate. Eastside Lansing has 9.6 aggravated assaults a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
How Eastside Lansing compares within Lansing
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Eastside Lansing to the next: 35% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 38% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Eastside Lansing run from A- to F.
35%27%38%
A or B 35%C 27%D or F 38%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Eastside Lansing has less violent crime than 6 of the 8 neighborhoods in Lansing. It covers much of the Eastside Lansing area and the Old Town area.
Is violent crime going up in Lansing?
Reported violent crime in Lansing as a whole has risen 17% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 11 to 13 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
LansingUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Lansing. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Lansing
Violent, US
2016
+3%
+4%
2017
+2%
+4%
2018
-0%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+35%
+4%
2021
+39%
+6%
2022
+14%
+5%
2023
+24%
+2%
2024
+17%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Eastside Lansing
CrimeGrade™ estimates Eastside Lansing has about 27 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and close to Lansing 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 Eastside Lansing, about 92% 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 Lansing
The Lansing Police Department polices Eastside Lansing; these figures cover Lansing as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Lansing as a whole, 63% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often at stores and businesses: 37% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Stores and businesses (37%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (63%)
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 Eastside Lansing and nearby neighborhoods
Eastside Lansing has less violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Eastside Lansing. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Eastside Lansing has more violent crime than 66% of them.
Nightlife, density and walkability in Eastside Lansing
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Eastside Lansing apart: it has 1.2 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally, and 15% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. Places with many bars tend to report more assault and robbery, and they run high here.
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.1.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 85% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.15% of residentsUS: 24%Lower 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.C+ (43 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 58% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.68 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 79% 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 Eastside Lansing
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Eastside Lansing about $45 million a year, or $3,121 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $9.2 million, or $631 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
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.
