Garfield Park, Grand Rapids, MI Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Garfield Park is a neighborhood of 17,400 residents in Grand Rapids, about 3 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Garfield Park?
Violent crime is high in Garfield Park: a D, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 93% of Americans live. Assaults make up 92% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Grand Rapids as a whole grades B- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 154 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
7% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Garfield Park as a whole, and 93% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Garfield Park scores 154.
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 Garfield Park, Grand Rapids, MI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Garfield Park in Grand Rapids, 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 Garfield Park
Aggravated assaults run high. Garfield Park has aggravated assaults at more than triple the US rate: 9.7 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
How Garfield Park compares within Grand Rapids
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Garfield Park to the next: 21% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 71% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Garfield Park run from B to F.
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A or B 21%C 8%D or F 71%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Garfield Park has less violent crime than 4 of the 21 neighborhoods in Grand Rapids. It covers much of the Garfield Park area and the Roosevelt Park area.
Violent crime rates and types in Garfield Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Garfield Park has about 36 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and 36% more than Grand Rapids 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 Garfield Park, 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 Grand Rapids
The Grand Rapids Police Department polices Garfield Park; these figures cover Grand Rapids as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Grand Rapids as a whole, 48% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 46% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (48%)
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 Garfield Park and nearby neighborhoods
Garfield Park has more violent crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods. Eastown and Heritage Hill have the least violent crime nearby.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Garfield Park. 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, Garfield Park has more violent crime than 78% of them.
Tree cover, walkability and density in Garfield Park
Garfield Park looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.19% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 78% 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.B- (54 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 67% 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.62% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 56% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Garfield Park: C- (29 of 100).9 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 53% 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 Garfield Park
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Garfield Park about $58 million a year, or $3,340 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $13 million, or $735 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.
