Brooklyn Park, MN has a C safety grade (49/100) with a violent crime rate of 291 per 100,000, 17% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Brooklyn Park, MN Crime Rate & Safety
At 80,665 residents, Brooklyn Park is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MN and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Brooklyn Park, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 17% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brooklyn Park, MN shows violent crime at 291.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,478.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 17% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
291.3/100K violent
2478.2/100K property
-17% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Brooklyn Park, MN
Position in the state cohort
Brooklyn Park reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Minnesota cities
At 291.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brooklyn Park ranks 35 of 276 — above 241 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +197.7% 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 Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brooklyn Park's 291.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Alexandria (290.7), Fairmont (294.9), Spring Lake Park (285.4), Redwood Falls (297.4). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 442.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 291.3 in 2024 (-34.2%). The highest observed value was 445.3 in 2021 and the lowest 291.3 in 2024. 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 74.0% of reported property offenses in Brooklyn Park, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (211) and motor vehicle theft (309). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Brooklyn Park'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Brooklyn Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 26.1 Census sq mi, Brooklyn Park logged 76.7 property and 9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brooklyn Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 2,234 offenses; mix index 4,709).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (26.1 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
-24.5%
385.7 → 291.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-10.6%
2771 → 2478.2/100K
Property offenses lead Brooklyn Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MN
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,999
2478.2
1624.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,479
1833.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
309
383.1
-
-
Burglary
211
261.6
-
-
Arson
9
11.2
-
-
Violent Crime
235
291.3
259.4
352
Aggravated Assault
132
163.6
-
-
Robbery
61
75.6
-
-
Rape
38
47.1
-
-
Murder
4
5
-
-
Brooklyn Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Brooklyn Park 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 Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Brooklyn Park NIBRS-participating
Brooklyn Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brooklyn Park's 2,234 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 Park in population. Their populations run from 71,492 to 88,003, against 80,665 here. Or use our
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Brooklyn Park at 291.3/100K violent and 2,478.2/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Brooklyn Park reported 235 violent crimes and 1,999 property crimes, for a total of 2,234 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Brooklyn Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Brooklyn Park's violent crime rate decreased by 24.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.6%.
What is the most common crime in Brooklyn Park?
The most common crime type in Brooklyn Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.2% of all reported crimes (1,479 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Brooklyn Park's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brooklyn Park, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.