Hopkins, MN has a B safety grade (61/100) with a violent crime rate of 282 per 100,000, 20% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hopkins (18,454 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MN and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Hopkins, MN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 20% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hopkins, MN shows violent crime at 281.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,295.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 20% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 281.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hopkins ranks 38 of 276 — above 238 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +188.0% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hopkins's 281.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Worthington (281.0), Albany (280.9), Crystal (279.4), Chisholm (278.8). 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 215.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 281.8 in 2024 (+30.8%). The highest observed value was 281.8 in 2024 and the lowest 209.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 17.9% of the 291 Part I offenses reported in Hopkins for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 7.3 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 70.3% of reported property offenses in Hopkins, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (37) and motor vehicle theft (34). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Hopkins'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 4.1 Census sq mi, Hopkins logged 58.9 property and 12.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hopkins leans on larceny-theft at 58% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,780.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hopkins offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.1 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 | 239 | 1295.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 168 | 910.4 |
| Burglary | 37 | 200.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 34 | 184.2 |
| Arson | 6 | 32.5 |
| Violent Crime | 52 | 281.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 32 | 173.4 |
| Robbery | 11 | 59.6 |
| Rape | 9 | 48.8 |
| Murder | 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 | 18,568 | 215.4 | 2434.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 18,272 | 279.1 | 2665.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,125 | 209.7 | 2328.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,911 | 262.4 | 1892.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 18,454 | 281.8 | 1295.1 |
Hopkins Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hopkins's 291 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 Hopkins in population. Their populations run from 16,627 to 20,319, against 18,454 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hopkins sits at 281.8/100K violent (grade B); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hopkins at 281.8/100K violent and 1,295.1/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
281.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,295.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Hopkins reported 52 violent crimes and 239 property crimes, for a total of 291 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hopkins's violent crime rate increased by 7.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.6%.
The most common crime type in Hopkins is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.7% of all reported crimes (168 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hopkins 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 Hopkins's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hopkins, 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. Hopkins is scored in the mid-size municipal band (18,454 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.