Dilworth, MN has a C safety grade (47/100) with a violent crime rate of 228 per 100,000, 35% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Dilworth is a small municipal reporter (4,828 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Dilworth, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 35% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Dilworth, MN shows violent crime at 227.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 6,193 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 35% 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.
Small-count caution
Dilworth reported 11 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,828. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Dilworth's 227.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Silver Bay (222.7), St. Francis (222.6), Royalton (234.6), Duluth (219.3). 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 227.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Dilworth ranks 54 of 276 — above 222 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +132.9% 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 3.5% of the 310 Part I offenses reported in Dilworth for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 7.1 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 201.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 227.8 in 2024 (+13.1%). The highest observed value was 333.6 in 2021 and the lowest 103.0 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Dilworth'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 11 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,828. 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.
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 3.5 Census sq mi, Dilworth logged 86.4 property and 3.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Dilworth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (86% of 310 offenses; mix index 7,438).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Dilworth offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.5 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 | 299 | 6193 |
| Larceny-Theft | 266 | 5509.5 |
| Burglary | 24 | 497.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 9 | 186.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 20.7 |
| Violent Crime | 11 | 227.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 165.7 |
| Rape | 2 | 41.4 |
| Robbery | 1 | 20.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,469 | 201.4 | 6131.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,497 | 333.6 | 6159.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,641 | 107.7 | 5494.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,855 | 103 | 6858.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,828 | 227.8 | 6193 |
Dilworth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Dilworth's 310 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 Dilworth in population. Their populations run from 4,625 to 5,126, against 4,828 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Dilworth sits at 227.8/100K violent (grade C); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Dilworth reported 11 violent crimes and 299 property crimes, for a total of 310 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Dilworth's violent crime rate increased by 121.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.7%.
The most common crime type in Dilworth is larceny-theft, accounting for 85.8% of all reported crimes (266 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Dilworth 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 Dilworth's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Dilworth, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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