2025 Compare Cities Crime:
East Lansing, MI vs Santa Cruz, CA

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- Santa Cruz has 69% more violent crime than East Lansing.
- Santa Cruz has 67% more property crime than East Lansing.
 East Lansing, MISanta Cruz, CAUnited States
 Violent Crime  Unlock38.222.7
 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 Santa Cruz    44 Reviews

I lived in the Santa Cruz area for 20 years. UCSC alum. Our kids were born there. There are wonderful things about Santa Cruz, but also many serious problems that we  More

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Over 5 years ago

I have been here for four generations! My kids are the fifth. I guess that should tell you how wonderful it is here, at least for us. It's so cool to have world class  More

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I was born over the hill in San Jose area, and as a kid I loved coming over to the boardwalk. Santa Cruz has always been and always will be a town of diversity,  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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