Crime reported by the Pontiac Police Department
The Pontiac Police Department reported 607 violent offenses to the FBI in 2024, over the 61,644 residents it serves — 984.7 per 100,000. This is that agency’s record, not a figure for Pontiac as a place.
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Identifiers
- ORI
- MI631900X
- County
- OAKLAND
- Reporting
- NIBRS
The record
| Violent crime rate · 2024607 offenses over the 61,644 residents this agency served in 2024. | 984.7offenses per 100,000 residents served |
|---|---|
| Property crime rate · 20241,022 offenses over the 61,644 residents this agency served in 2024. | 1,657.9offenses per 100,000 residents served |
| Residents served · 2024The population this agency covers, not the population of a place. It changes every year, and each year’s rate divides by that year’s figure. | 61,644residents, as the FBI attributes them to this agency in 2024 |
Year by year · 2019–2024
Only years this agency reported. The last two columns are what separate a quiet year from a thin record: how many of the twelve months it submitted, and how the year compares with the most it has ever reported.
Violent crime
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Year | Offenses | Rate | Months | Share of its best year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 784 | 1,311.2 | 12 | 93.3% |
| 2020 | 840 | 1,413.9 | 12 | 100.0% |
| 2021 | 715 | 1,215.3 | 12 | 85.1% |
| 2022 | 624 | 1,030.0 | 12 | 74.3% |
| 2023 | 681 | 1,100.7 | 12 | 81.1% |
| 2024 | 607 | 984.7 | 12 | 72.3% |
Property crime
2 more columns on a wider screen
| Year | Offenses | Rate | Months | Share of its best year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 1,323 | 2,212.7 | 12 | 100.0% |
| 2020 | 1,125 | 1,893.6 | 12 | 85.0% |
| 2021 | 1,028 | 1,747.3 | 12 | 77.7% |
| 2022 | 1,092 | 1,802.5 | 12 | 82.5% |
| 2023 | 1,206 | 1,949.2 | 12 | 91.2% |
| 2024 | 1,022 | 1,657.9 | 12 | 77.2% |
On comparing this with another agency
The FBI cautions against ranking jurisdictions against one another, and the caution applies to two of these pages side by side as much as to a list. We publish the rate, the count, the population it divides by and how much of its own record each agency reported, together on the same row, and we say that a figure describes what was reported to police rather than what happened. Nothing here is ranked on a measure the FBI did not publish for it. Its wording is on the ranking page, quoted in full, and at https://ucr.fbi.gov/cautionagainstranking.pdf.
What this data cannot show
- An agency is not a place. This is what the Pontiac Police Department reported for the population it serves. A city with a transit or university force as well is not the sum of them, and a sheriff’s office covers the part of a county nobody else polices.
- Nothing here is added to a county, state or national total. Two agencies can serve overlapping populations, and summed across a state they reach 101% of its covered population at the median and 128% in Louisiana. The state figures on this site come from the FBI’s own state series, which is a different call.
- Each year’s rate divides by that year’s population, which the FBI publishes beside the counts. Every agency’s population changes annually, by up to 11.4%.
- A year the agency reported nothing is absent rather than shown as zero. The FBI returns 0 for a month nobody submitted and the same 0 for a month in which nothing happened, and nothing in the response separates them.
- Violent and property crime are the FBI’s own aggregations, never sums of component offenses computed here. Offenses are those reported to and recorded by this agency: not convictions, and not what was never reported to police.
- Agencies serving fewer than 25,000 people have no page, because a rate over a few thousand residents moves by a third on one incident.
Related
Sources
- FBI Crime Data Explorer — crime reported by each agency — Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026
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