Burnsville, MN has a B safety grade (63/100) with a violent crime rate of 210 per 100,000, 40% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Burnsville, MN Crime Rate & Safety
At 64,860 residents, Burnsville 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.
Burnsville, MN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 40% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Burnsville, MN shows violent crime at 209.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,888.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 40% 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.
B safety grade
209.7/100K violent
1888.7/100K property
-40% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Burnsville, MN
Comparable rate records
Burnsville's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Burnsville's 209.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Nashwauk (209.4), Albert Lea (208.9), Coon Rapids (211.7), Pine River (213.9). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Burnsville reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Minnesota cities
At 209.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Burnsville ranks 62 of 276 — above 214 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +114.3% 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 242.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 209.7 in 2024 (-13.5%). The highest observed value was 273.0 in 2022 and the lowest 209.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Burnsville'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.
Burnsville's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 24.9 Census sq mi, Burnsville logged 49.1 property and 5.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Burnsville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 1,361 offenses; mix index 6,383).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (24.9 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
-19.6%
260.8 → 209.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.3%
2015.7 → 1888.7/100K
Property offenses lead Burnsville's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MN
Property Crime
1,225
1888.7
1624.6
Larceny-Theft
1,078
1662
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
81
124.9
-
Burglary
66
101.8
-
Arson
2
3.1
-
Violent Crime
136
209.7
259.4
Aggravated Assault
91
140.3
-
Rape
29
44.7
-
Robbery
11
17
-
Murder
5
7.7
-
Burnsville Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Burnsville 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
Burnsville Police Department
Reporting agency for Burnsville NIBRS-participating
Burnsville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Burnsville's 1,361 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
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In 2024, Burnsville reported 136 violent crimes and 1,225 property crimes, for a total of 1,361 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Burnsville?
From 2023 to 2024, Burnsville's violent crime rate decreased by 19.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.3%.
What is the most common crime in Burnsville?
The most common crime type in Burnsville is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.2% of all reported crimes (1,078 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Burnsville'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 Burnsville, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.