2025 Compare Cities Crime:
East Lansing, MI vs Richmond, VA

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- Richmond has 52% more violent crime than East Lansing.
- Richmond has 56% more property crime than East Lansing.
 East Lansing, MIRichmond, VAUnited States
 Violent Crime  Unlock24.622.7
 Property Crime24.7  Unlock35.4

Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)

Reviews for East Lansing    4 Reviews

East Lansing is a wonderful, lively, youthful college town that has gotten better over time. You feel the strong Spartan Spirit everywhere as students, alumni and locals  More

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East Lansing is noted for being the home of one of the first Land Grant colleges -- Michigan State University. MSU has an large campus with an enormous area of land  More

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Over 17 years ago

East Lansing is a very pretty town. The town has had frequent problems with student rioters. Overall 60% of the town is composed of students. I would recommend East  More

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Reviews for Richmond    109 Reviews

Over 3 years ago

Lived here for a year and it’s not perfect but it’s constantly improving now (areas redevloped, more businesses, job growth). Cost of living is great compared to  More

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Over 4 years ago

We love Richmond so much that when we talk about where we'd like to live if we could live anywhere in the US, we always come back to RVA. We live in the city proper  More

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Over 4 years ago

I'm an out-of-towner but am coming up on 1 year in Richmond. I would summarize it this way: the best thing and the worst thing about Richmond is its location. I'll  More

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Cities with the Least Crime Near East Lansing, MichiganCrime Index
 Shaftsburg, MI 
 Eureka CDP (Clinton County), MI 
 Elsie, MI7.45
 Bellevue, MI8.65
 Williamston, MI10.75
 DeWitt, MI11.55
 Olivet, MI12.25
 Potterville, MI12.7
 Wacousta, MI13.55
 Ovid, MI13.6

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