Breitung Township, MN has a B safety grade (64/100) with a violent crime rate of 190 per 100,000, 46% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Breitung Township's UCR row covers a small municipal population (526). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MN and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Breitung Township, MN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 46% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Breitung Township, MN shows violent crime at 190.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,901.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% 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.
Small-count caution
Breitung Township reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 526. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Breitung Township's 190.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Austin (191.1), Mendota Heights (191.3), Mounds View (188.5), Dawson/Boyd (191.8). 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
At 190.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Breitung Township ranks 73 of 276 — above 203 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +94.3% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 163.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 190.1 in 2024 (+16.2%). The highest observed value was 191.6 in 2022 and the lowest 0.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Breitung Township'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.
Based on 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 526. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Breitung Township's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (82% of 11 offenses; mix index 6,860).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Breitung Township offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 10 | 1901.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 9 | 1711 |
| Burglary | 1 | 190.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 190.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 190.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 611 | 163.7 | 654.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 613 | 0 | 652.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 522 | 191.6 | 2107.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 525 | 0 | 2666.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 526 | 190.1 | 1901.1 |
Breitung Township Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Breitung Township's 11 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 Breitung Township in population. Their populations run from 466 to 587, against 526 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Breitung Township reported 1 violent crimes and 10 property crimes, for a total of 11 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Breitung Township's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate decreased by 28.7%.
The most common crime type in Breitung Township is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.8% of all reported crimes (9 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Breitung Township's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Breitung Township's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Breitung Township, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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