Blue Earth, MN has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 380 per 100,000, 8% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Blue Earth is a small municipal reporter (3,161 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Blue Earth, MN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 8% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blue Earth, MN shows violent crime at 379.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 189.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 8% above 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 64.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 379.6 in 2024 (+486.0%). The highest observed value was 379.6 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 66.7% of the 18 Part I offenses reported in Blue Earth for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 56.1 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Small-count caution
Blue Earth reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 3,161. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Position in the state cohort
At 379.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blue Earth ranks 20 of 276 — above 256 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +288.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Blue Earth's 379.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Gibbon (380.7), Robbinsdale (384.9), Oak Park Heights (389.2), Fosston (365.5). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 50.0% of reported property offenses in Blue Earth, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (3). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Blue Earth's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 3,161. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 3.3 Census sq mi, Blue Earth logged 1.8 property and 3.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Blue Earth leans on aggravated assault at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,765.
Violent offenses are 67% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Blue Earth offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.3 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 12 | 379.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 316.4 |
| Rape | 2 | 63.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 6 | 189.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 3 | 94.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 3 | 94.9 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 3,087 | 64.8 | 647.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 3,078 | 162.4 | 162.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 3,251 | 0 | 184.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 3,176 | 125.9 | 377.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 3,161 | 379.6 | 189.8 |
Blue Earth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Blue Earth's 18 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Minnesota cities closest to Blue Earth in population. Their populations run from 2,991 to 3,425, against 3,161 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Blue Earth reported 12 violent crimes and 6 property crimes, for a total of 18 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Blue Earth's violent crime rate increased by 201.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 49.8%.
The most common crime type in Blue Earth is aggravated assault, accounting for 55.6% of all reported crimes (10 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Blue Earth is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Blue Earth's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Blue Earth, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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