Coon Rapids, MN has a B safety grade (65/100) with a violent crime rate of 212 per 100,000, 40% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Coon Rapids, MN Crime Rate & Safety
At 63,308 residents, Coon Rapids 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.
Coon Rapids, 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, Coon Rapids, MN shows violent crime at 211.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,639.6 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
211.7/100K violent
1639.6/100K property
-40% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Coon Rapids, MN
Comparable rate records
Coon Rapids's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Coon Rapids's 211.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Burnsville (209.7), Nashwauk (209.4), Pine River (213.9), Apple Valley (214.4). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Coon Rapids reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Minnesota cities
At 211.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Coon Rapids ranks 61 of 276 — above 215 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +116.3% 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 202.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 211.7 in 2024 (+4.4%). The highest observed value was 248.5 in 2022 and the lowest 185.9 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Coon Rapids'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.
Coon Rapids's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 22.6 Census sq mi, Coon Rapids logged 45.9 property and 5.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Coon Rapids's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 1,172 offenses; mix index 5,215).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (22.6 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
+13.9%
185.9 → 211.7/100K
Property Crime Rate
+5.2%
1557.9 → 1639.6/100K
Property offenses lead Coon Rapids's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,038
1639.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
828
1307.9
-
Burglary
120
189.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
90
142.2
-
Arson
7
11.1
-
Violent Crime
134
211.7
352
Aggravated Assault
84
132.7
-
Rape
29
45.8
-
Robbery
17
26.9
-
Murder
4
6.3
-
Coon Rapids Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Coon Rapids 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
Coon Rapids Police Department
Reporting agency for Coon Rapids NIBRS-participating
Coon Rapids Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Coon Rapids's 1,172 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 Coon Rapids in population. Their populations run from 51,935 to 71,622, against 63,308 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Coon Rapids reported 134 violent crimes and 1,038 property crimes, for a total of 1,172 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Coon Rapids?
From 2023 to 2024, Coon Rapids's violent crime rate increased by 13.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.2%.
What is the most common crime in Coon Rapids?
The most common crime type in Coon Rapids is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.6% of all reported crimes (828 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Coon Rapids'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 Coon Rapids, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.