Buffalo Lake, MN has a A+ safety grade (100/100) with a violent crime rate of 0 per 100,000, .
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Buffalo Lake's UCR row covers a small municipal population (630). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MN and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Buffalo Lake, MN FBI UCR crime rates and PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Buffalo Lake, MN shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 0 per 100,000. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Buffalo Lake reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 630. 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 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Buffalo Lake ranks 213 of 276 — above 0 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% against the cohort median of 98.8. 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 Buffalo Lake's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ada (0.0), Adrian (0.0), Akeley (0.0), Arlington (0.0). 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 counts dominate Buffalo Lake'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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 630. 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.
Across 0.7 Census sq mi, Buffalo Lake logged 0 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.7 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Larceny-Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 680 | 0 | 1029.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 672 | 148.8 | 148.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 646 | 0 | 309.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 641 | 0 | 312 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 630 | 0 | 0 |
Buffalo Lake Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Buffalo Lake's 0 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 Buffalo Lake in population. Their populations run from 561 to 716, against 630 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Buffalo Lake sits at 0/100K violent (grade A+); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Buffalo Lake reported 0 violent crimes and 0 property crimes, for a total of 0 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Buffalo Lake's violent crime rate data is unavailable, and the property crime rate decreased by 100%.
Micro-municipal read: Buffalo Lake'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 Buffalo Lake's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Buffalo Lake, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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