Michigan Sexual Assault and Sex Offender Registry Statistics

The Michigan State Police recorded 5,240 victims in its "Rape" category for incident year 2025, and 5,698 for 2024.^[1][2] That category counts only sexual penetration reported to police as first- or third-degree criminal sexual conduct (CSC); it leaves out the sexual-contact offenses, which the State Police count separately.^[3][4] Every one of these is a count of crime reported to police, not of charges or convictions.^[5]

Every State Police figure on this page comes from the year-end ("Frozen") view of the Crime in Michigan dashboard as read on 4 October 2026. The State Police describe the more recent "Live" data as preliminary and subject to change, and warn that late submissions by police agencies can leave counts incomplete in both views, so a number may be different if you look it up later.^[5][6]

If you need to talk to someone: in an emergency call 911.^[9][10] The National Sexual Assault Hotline is 800.656.HOPE (4673), free, confidential and open 24/7.^[11] Michigan's VOICES4 hotline takes calls and texts at 1-855-864-2374.^[12][13]

Where Michigan's numbers come from

The State Police publish police-reported crime data in the Crime in Michigan dashboard, which they say replaces the traditional annual report. On 4 October 2026 its Frozen view covered incidents from January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2025.^[5] Three features of the data shape every number below:

• "Rape" is a reporting label, not a statute. The State Police index crime "Rape" is the sum of six reporting classes of sexual penetration recorded under the first- and third-degree CSC statutes, MCL 750.520b and 750.520d.^[3] Michigan's criminal law uses the term criminal sexual conduct; see Is "rape" a crime in Michigan law?
• Only the most serious offense is counted. Unless noted otherwise, when an incident involves several offenses, or a victim is connected to several, the dashboard counts only the most serious one.^[6]
• Reports, not outcomes. The dashboard says its data "represent only crime that occurred and not any subsequent prosecutorial action or judicial findings."^[5]

Statewide counts by offense class, 2024 and 2025

The table gives the number of victims the State Police recorded in each reporting class. The class names are police reporting categories.^[1][2]

State Police reporting class	Victims, 2024	Victims, 2025
CSC 1st degree, penis/vagina penetration	2,537	2,281[2][1]
CSC 3rd degree, penis/vagina penetration	1,295	1,182[2][1]
CSC 1st degree, oral/anal penetration	894	817[2][1]
CSC 3rd degree, oral/anal penetration	517	528[2][1]
CSC 1st degree, penetration with an object	282	253[2][1]
CSC 3rd degree, penetration with an object	173	179[2][1]
"Rape" total (the six classes above)	5,698	5,240[2][1]
Sexual contact, CSC 2nd degree (not in the "Rape" total)	1,936	1,934[4]
Sexual contact, CSC 4th degree (not in the "Rape" total)	2,732	2,703[4]

The State Police also keep two small "nonforcible" penetration classes outside the "Rape" total: for 2025 they recorded 25 victims under "Sexual Penetration Nonforcible Blood/Affinity" and 46 under "Sexual Penetration Nonforcible Other."^[4] What each degree of CSC means in law is explained in the overview of Michigan's criminal sexual conduct law and in Sexual penetration vs. sexual contact.

Looking further back, the same dashboard shows 6,802 in the "Rape" category for 2021, against 5,240 for 2025.^[14] Those are counts of reports. The State Police themselves warn that late or incomplete submissions "may result in incomplete crime data or artificial decreases in crime trends," so the difference between the two numbers does not by itself show that fewer offenses were committed.^[6]

Who the recorded victims were, 2025

Of the 5,240 victims in the "Rape" category for 2025, the State Police recorded 4,487 as female, 747 as male and 6 as of unknown sex. Of the total, 2,622 were aged 0 to 17, including 2,164 girls and 456 boys.^[15]

The dashboard's relationship table for the same year lists 5,594 victim-to-offender relationships. "Stranger" accounted for 344 of them, which the table shows as 6.1%. The largest categories were "Otherwise Known" (885), "Unknown" (677), "Acquaintance" (625), "Friend" (494), "Dating (boyfriend/girlfriend)" (474) and "Child" (439).^[16] "Unknown" is its own category in that table and is not the same entry as "Stranger."^[16]

By location, 3,986 of the 5,240 reported offenses, which the dashboard shows as 76.1%, were recorded as occurring in a residence or home. The next most common entries were hotel or motel (223) and highway, road, alley, street or sidewalk (154).^[17]

Clearances and arrests

The State Police clearance table counts incidents that were cleared by arrest or by exceptional means. For 2025 incidents it shows 520 of 2,179 incidents cleared in the first-degree penis/vagina penetration class (23.9%), 286 of 1,162 in the third-degree penis/vagina penetration class (24.6%), 385 of 1,672 for second-degree sexual contact (23.0%) and 633 of 2,468 for fourth-degree sexual contact (25.6%). The rate the table shows for all crimes against persons was 44.4%.^[18] For 2024 incidents the corresponding rates were 27.7%, 30.8%, 28.7% and 28.9%.^[19]

A clearance is a status recorded by police. It is not a conviction, and an incident that has not been cleared has not been found to be false. The dashboard separately recorded 725 people arrested in arrest year 2025 for offenses in the "Rape" category, 703 male and 22 female, of whom 93 were aged 0 to 17.^[20] Because the dashboard says nothing about what prosecutors or courts did next, none of these figures is a charging or conviction rate.^[5]

West Michigan counties

These are the State Police counts of crimes in the "Rape" category, counted one per victim, for the eleven counties this guide covers.^[21][22] They do not include sexual-contact offenses.^[3]

County	2024	2025
Kent	442	380[21]
Ottawa	187	194[23]
Allegan	48	46[24]
Muskegon	98	117[25]
Kalamazoo	198	183[26]
Barry	36	43[27]
Ionia	61	53[28]
Montcalm	63	58[29]
Newaygo	22	9[30]
Van Buren	30	24[31]
Berrien	116	92[22]

County figures are small enough that a late report from a single police agency can move them. The State Police warning about incomplete data applies to individual cities and counties as well as to the state.^[6] Newaygo County's 2025 figure of 9 follows figures of 25, 24 and 22 for 2022 through 2024, and this guide does not treat it as a measured drop.^[30][6]

The sex offender registry after September 2026

Registry counts published before September 2026 no longer describe the registry. The State Police describe the Michigan Supreme Court's order of September 9, 2026 in People v Smith as finding the 2021 Sex Offenders Registration Act to be unconstitutional retroactive punishment for any registrable offense committed before July 1, 2011, so that every person registered solely for a Michigan registrable offense committed before that date is permanently removed.^[32] That is the State Police's description of the order; this page does not quote the order itself.

• According to the State Police, approximately 43,000 people were actively registered or required to be registered at the time of the order.^[7]
• As of Friday, September 11, 2026 the State Police said it had removed more than 20,000, and that "these numbers could change" as its review continued.^[7]
• The State Police say the order has no effect on the validity of the underlying conviction, and that people removed because of it have no further duty to register, report or verify in Michigan.^[33]

No updated registry total had been verified for this guide as of 4 October 2026, so none is printed. A person convicted of a sex offense may be absent from the public registry for other reasons the State Police list, including a juvenile adjudication, a conviction that was set aside, or a registration period that has ended.^[34] The law is in Michigan's sex offender registry explained and the court rulings on the registry.

Evidence kits

Michigan tracks sexual assault evidence kits in a statewide system called Track-Kit, whose rollout was completed in 2019.^[35] The numbers most often repeated about kits are historical:

• Between 2009 and 2017, approximately 11,000 kits that had been released to the Detroit Police Department were found untested in a Detroit warehouse, and a statewide audit found several thousand more untested released kits at police agencies around the state. The State gives no exact statewide figure on that page.^[36]
• The Attorney General reported on February 2, 2026 that, according to the State Police, testing of the previously unsubmitted kits collected in the 2016 statewide inventory is complete, the last kit having finished testing in August 2018.^[37]
• The same report says an additional 500 unsubmitted kits later located by the Detroit Police Department were never tested by the contracted laboratory and were returned to the State Police to be tested by state laboratories.^[38]
• In Kalamazoo County, the project re-investigating cases from previously untested kits had 221 total cases and 159 closed, with 22 convictions (18 by plea and four by jury trial) and two acquittals to date.^[39]

The State says Track-Kit was to generate its first annual compliance report for each participating organization at the beginning of 2025.^[35] This guide found no published statewide figure for how many kits are collected, released or tested on time. The legal deadlines are in Kit testing deadlines.

National context

Two federal agencies supply the national figures used here. They measure different things from the State Police: both rest on surveys of what people say happened to them, whether or not anyone told the police.

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (page updated December 17, 2025, citing its National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey: the 2023/2024 data brief for the first two figures below and the 2016/2017 report for the third): nearly half of women and more than 1 in 6 men experienced some form of contact sexual violence in their lifetimes.^[40] More than 1 in 5 women and 1 in 31 men have experienced completed or attempted rape.^[41] More than 4 in 5 female rape survivors reported that they were first raped before age 25, and almost half before age 18.^[41]
• Bureau of Justice Statistics (Criminal Victimization, 2024): 24% of rape or sexual assault victimizations were reported to police in 2024, compared with 46% in 2023; for violent crime as a whole the figure was approximately 48% in 2024.^[8] The survey's rate of rape or sexual assault not reported to police was 1.4 per 1,000 persons age 12 or older in 2024 and 0.9 in 2023.^[42]

The survey estimate moved from 46% to 24% in a single year. This page therefore gives the reported share with its year and does not state a fixed "share of assaults that go unreported."^[8]

What this page does not print

• A false-report rate. No government statistic on how often reports of sexual assault are false was verified for this guide, so the guide prints none, in either direction. Neither an uncleared incident nor a case that is not charged is a finding that a report was false. How the law treats a false report is in False allegations of sexual misconduct.
• A current registry total, or a breakdown by tier. Only the two State Police figures above were verified.^[7]
• Conviction counts. The State Police data stop at the police record.^[5]
• Trends. Apart from the two numbers quoted for 2021 and 2025, this page does not describe a rise or fall, because reported counts are revised and can be incomplete.^[6]

Common misreadings of these numbers are collected in Michigan sex crime myths. Hotlines and local programs are in Where to get help.