Dickinson, ND has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 297 per 100,000, 16% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Dickinson (24,910 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then ND and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Dickinson, ND carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 16% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dickinson, ND shows violent crime at 297.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,706.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 16% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 172.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 297.1 in 2024 (+72.5%). The highest observed value was 297.1 in 2024 and the lowest 172.3 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dickinson's 297.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Watford City (302.6), Mandan (287.3), Bismarck (278.0), Minot (318.9). 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
At 297.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dickinson ranks 6 of 23 — above 17 of the 22 other North Dakota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +99.0% against the cohort median of 149.3. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate Dickinson'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 13.2 Census sq mi, Dickinson logged 32.2 property and 5.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dickinson's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 499 offenses; mix index 5,084).
Violent offenses are only 15% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Dickinson offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.2 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 | 425 | 1706.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 346 | 1389 |
| Burglary | 44 | 176.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 35 | 140.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 74 | 297.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 60 | 240.9 |
| Rape | 10 | 40.1 |
| Murder | 2 | 8 |
| Robbery | 2 | 8 |
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 | 23,801 | 172.3 | 1920.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 24,179 | 260.6 | 1584 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 24,577 | 248.2 | 1737.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 24,577 | 272.6 | 1859.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 24,910 | 297.1 | 1706.1 |
Dickinson Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dickinson's 499 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 North Dakota cities closest to Dickinson in population. Their populations run from 4,479 to 40,915, against 24,910 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Dickinson sits at 297.1/100K violent (grade C); the North Dakota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Dickinson at 297.1/100K violent and 1,706.1/100K property - matched below outside North Dakota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
297.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,706.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Dickinson reported 74 violent crimes and 425 property crimes, for a total of 499 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Dickinson's violent crime rate increased by 9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.2%.
The most common crime type in Dickinson is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.3% of all reported crimes (346 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Dickinson figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Dickinson's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Dickinson, ND 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. Dickinson is scored in the mid-size municipal band (24,910 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.