Duluth, MN has a C safety grade (52/100) with a violent crime rate of 219 per 100,000, 38% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Duluth, MN Crime Rate & Safety
At 88,003 residents, Duluth 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.
Duluth, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Duluth, MN shows violent crime at 219.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,954.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% 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.
C safety grade
219.3/100K violent
2954.4/100K property
-38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Duluth, MN
Comparable rate records
Duluth's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Duluth's 219.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hutchinson (217.2), St. Francis (222.6), Silver Bay (222.7), 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
Duluth reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Minnesota cities
At 219.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Duluth ranks 57 of 276 — above 219 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +124.1% 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 301.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 219.3 in 2024 (-27.3%). The highest observed value was 396.6 in 2021 and the lowest 219.3 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 6.9% of the 2,793 Part I offenses reported in Duluth for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 3.7 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.
Property counts dominate Duluth'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.
Duluth's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 71.7 Census sq mi, Duluth logged 36.3 property and 2.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Duluth's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 2,793 offenses; mix index 6,595).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (71.7 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
-19.9%
273.8 → 219.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
+0.5%
2939.8 → 2954.4/100K
Property offenses lead Duluth's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MN
vs US avg
Property Crime
2,600
2954.4
1624.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
2,249
2555.6
-
-
Burglary
242
275
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
109
123.9
-
-
Arson
22
25
-
-
Violent Crime
193
219.3
259.4
352
Aggravated Assault
112
127.3
-
-
Rape
41
46.6
-
-
Robbery
33
37.5
-
-
Murder
7
8
-
-
Duluth Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Duluth 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
Duluth Police Department
Reporting agency for Duluth NIBRS-participating
Duluth Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Duluth's 2,793 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 Duluth in population. Their populations run from 71,492 to 86,598, against 88,003 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Duluth reported 193 violent crimes and 2,600 property crimes, for a total of 2,793 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Duluth?
From 2023 to 2024, Duluth's violent crime rate decreased by 19.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 0.5%.
What is the most common crime in Duluth?
The most common crime type in Duluth is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.5% of all reported crimes (2,249 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Duluth'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 Duluth, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.