Crookston, MN has a C safety grade (51/100) with a violent crime rate of 416 per 100,000, 18% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Crookston is a small municipal reporter (7,205 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Crookston, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 18% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Crookston, MN shows violent crime at 416.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 916 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% above 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 416.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Crookston ranks 12 of 276 — above 264 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +325.5% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.3% of the 96 Part I offenses reported in Crookston for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 20.7 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Crookston's 416.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Park Rapids (414.0), Virginia (412.0), St. Cloud (408.4), Brainerd (431.1). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 322.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 416.4 in 2024 (+29.1%). The highest observed value was 471.3 in 2022 and the lowest 322.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 65.2% of reported property offenses in Crookston, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (12) and motor vehicle theft (11). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Crookston'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 5.1 Census sq mi, Crookston logged 12.9 property and 5.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Crookston leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,818.
Violent offenses are 31% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Crookston offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 66 | 916 |
| Larceny-Theft | 43 | 596.8 |
| Burglary | 12 | 166.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 11 | 152.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 13.9 |
| Violent Crime | 30 | 416.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 263.7 |
| Rape | 11 | 152.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,749 | 322.6 | 1367.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 7,605 | 328.7 | 1078.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,214 | 471.3 | 1594.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,255 | 441.1 | 1006.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,205 | 416.4 | 916 |
Crookston Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Crookston's 96 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 Crookston in population. Their populations run from 6,512 to 7,540, against 7,205 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Crookston sits at 416.4/100K violent (grade C); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Crookston reported 30 violent crimes and 66 property crimes, for a total of 96 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Crookston's violent crime rate decreased by 5.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9%.
The most common crime type in Crookston is larceny-theft, accounting for 44.8% of all reported crimes (43 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Crookston is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Crookston's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Crookston, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Crookston is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (7,205 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.