Grand Forks, ND has a C safety grade (44/100) with a violent crime rate of 359 per 100,000, 2% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Grand Forks, ND Crime Rate & Safety
At 58,848 residents, Grand Forks is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against ND and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Grand Forks, ND carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 2% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Grand Forks, ND shows violent crime at 358.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,282.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 2% 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.
C safety grade
358.6/100K violent
2282.2/100K property
+2% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Grand Forks, ND
Position in the state cohort
Grand Forks reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Dakota cities
At 358.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Grand Forks ranks 3 of 23 — above 20 of the 22 other North Dakota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +140.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
Grand Forks's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Dakota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Grand Forks's 358.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Minot (318.9), Watford City (302.6), Dickinson (297.1), Mandan (287.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 292.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 358.6 in 2024 (+22.8%). The highest observed value was 358.6 in 2024 and the lowest 265.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Grand Forks'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.
Grand Forks's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 29.1 Census sq mi, Grand Forks logged 46.1 property and 7.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Grand Forks's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 1,554 offenses; mix index 5,266).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (29.1 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+35.3%
265.1 → 358.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
-11.1%
2567.1 → 2282.2/100K
Property offenses lead Grand Forks's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs ND
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,343
2282.2
1705.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,103
1874.3
-
-
Burglary
151
256.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
89
151.2
-
-
Arson
1
1.7
-
-
Violent Crime
211
358.6
256.7
352
Aggravated Assault
149
253.2
-
-
Rape
43
73.1
-
-
Robbery
16
27.2
-
-
Murder
3
5.1
-
-
Grand Forks Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Grand Forks 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
Grand Forks Police Department
Reporting agency for Grand Forks NIBRS-participating
Grand Forks Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Grand Forks's 1,554 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 North Dakota
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the North Dakota cities closest to Grand Forks in population. Their populations run from 7,995 to 75,546, against 58,848 here. Or use our
side-by-side compare tool
to benchmark two cities directly.
Grand Forks at 358.6/100K violent and 2,282.2/100K property - matched below outside North Dakota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Grand Forks reported 211 violent crimes and 1,343 property crimes, for a total of 1,554 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Grand Forks?
From 2023 to 2024, Grand Forks's violent crime rate increased by 35.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.1%.
What is the most common crime in Grand Forks?
The most common crime type in Grand Forks is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.0% of all reported crimes (1,103 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Grand Forks'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 Grand Forks, ND rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.