Brooklyn Center, MN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 93% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brooklyn Center, MN shows violent crime at 679.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,688.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 93% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
679.4/100K violent
2688.5/100K property
+93% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Brooklyn Center, MN
Position in the state cohort
Brooklyn Center reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Minnesota cities
At 679.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brooklyn Center ranks 5 of 276 — above 271 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +594.3% 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.
Comparable rate records
Brooklyn Center's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brooklyn Center's 679.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are International Falls (703.7), Breckenridge (636.2), St. Paul (617.7), Gilbert (603.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 478.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 679.4 in 2024 (+42.1%). The highest observed value was 748.7 in 2023 and the lowest 478.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 59.8% of reported property offenses in Brooklyn Center, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (107) and motor vehicle theft (229). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 20.2% of the 1,046 Part I offenses reported in Brooklyn Center for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 9.6 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.
Property counts dominate Brooklyn Center'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.
Brooklyn Center's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8 Census sq mi, Brooklyn Center logged 104.3 property and 26.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brooklyn Center leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,026.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-9.3%
748.7 → 679.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+8%
2490.3 → 2688.5/100K
Property offenses lead Brooklyn Center's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MN
vs US avg
Property Crime
835
2688.5
1624.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
499
1606.7
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
229
737.3
-
-
Burglary
107
344.5
-
-
Arson
2
6.4
-
-
Violent Crime
211
679.4
259.4
352
Aggravated Assault
115
370.3
-
-
Robbery
61
196.4
-
-
Rape
35
112.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Brooklyn Center Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Brooklyn Center 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
Brooklyn Center Police Department
Reporting agency for Brooklyn Center NIBRS-participating
Brooklyn Center Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brooklyn Center's 1,046 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Minnesota cities closest to Brooklyn Center in population. Their populations run from 27,826 to 33,140, against 31,058 here. Or use our
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Brooklyn Center at 679.4/100K violent and 2,688.5/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Brooklyn Center reported 211 violent crimes and 835 property crimes, for a total of 1,046 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Brooklyn Center?
From 2023 to 2024, Brooklyn Center's violent crime rate decreased by 9.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 8%.
What is the most common crime in Brooklyn Center?
The most common crime type in Brooklyn Center is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.7% of all reported crimes (499 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Brooklyn Center 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 Brooklyn Center, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.