Albert Lea, MN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 41% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Albert Lea, MN shows violent crime at 208.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,489.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 41% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
208.9/100K violent
1489.5/100K property
-41% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Albert Lea, MN
Comparable rate records
Albert Lea's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Albert Lea's 208.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Nashwauk (209.4), Burnsville (209.7), Coon Rapids (211.7), Eveleth (204.9). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Position in the state cohort
Albert Lea reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Minnesota cities
At 208.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Albert Lea ranks 64 of 276 — above 212 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +113.5% against the cohort median of 97.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 72.0% of reported property offenses in Albert Lea, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (57) and motor vehicle theft (19). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 210.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 208.9 in 2024 (-0.7%). The highest observed value was 256.2 in 2023 and the lowest 158.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Albert Lea's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Albert Lea's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 13.3 Census sq mi, Albert Lea logged 20.4 property and 2.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Albert Lea's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (63% of 309 offenses; mix index 4,464).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-28.6%
2087.5 → 1489.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-18.5%
256.2 → 208.9/100K
Property offenses lead Albert Lea's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
271
1489.5
1711
Larceny-Theft
195
1071.8
-
Burglary
57
313.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
19
104.4
-
Arson
1
5.5
-
Violent Crime
38
208.9
352
Aggravated Assault
31
170.4
-
Robbery
5
27.5
-
Rape
2
11
-
Murder
0
0
-
Albert Lea Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Albert Lea property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Albert Lea Police Department
Reporting agency for Albert Lea NIBRS-participating
Albert Lea Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Albert Lea's 309 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Similar-Size Cities in Minnesota
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Albert Lea at 208.9/100K violent and 1,489.5/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Albert Lea reported 38 violent crimes and 271 property crimes, for a total of 309 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Albert Lea?
From 2023 to 2024, Albert Lea's violent crime rate decreased by 18.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 28.6%.
What is the most common crime in Albert Lea?
The most common crime type in Albert Lea is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.1% of all reported crimes (195 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Albert Lea figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Albert Lea, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.