Inver Grove Heights, MN has a B safety grade (71/100) with a violent crime rate of 166 per 100,000, 53% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Inver Grove Heights, MN Crime Rate & Safety
Inver Grove Heights (36,212 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MN and national benchmarks.
Inver Grove Heights, MN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 53% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Inver Grove Heights, MN shows violent crime at 165.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,394.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 53% 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.
B safety grade
165.7/100K violent
1394.6/100K property
-53% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Inver Grove Heights, MN
Comparable rate records
Inver Grove Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Inver Grove Heights's 165.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hill City (164.5), Staples (164.4), West St. Paul (162.7), Detroit Lakes (170.5). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 239.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 165.7 in 2024 (-30.9%). The highest observed value was 300.4 in 2021 and the lowest 165.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Inver Grove Heights sits mid-pack among comparable Minnesota cities
At 165.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Inver Grove Heights ranks 85 of 276 — above 191 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +69.3% 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.
Property counts dominate Inver Grove Heights'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.
Inver Grove Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 27.9 Census sq mi, Inver Grove Heights logged 18.1 property and 2.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Inver Grove Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 565 offenses; mix index 5,431).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (27.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-23.4%
1821 → 1394.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-7.7%
179.6 → 165.7/100K
Property offenses lead Inver Grove Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
505
1394.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
408
1126.7
-
Burglary
63
174
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
34
93.9
-
Arson
1
2.8
-
Violent Crime
60
165.7
352
Aggravated Assault
37
102.2
-
Rape
20
55.2
-
Robbery
3
8.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Inver Grove Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Inver Grove Heights 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
Inver Grove Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Inver Grove Heights NIBRS-participating
Inver Grove Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Inver Grove Heights's 565 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 Inver Grove Heights in population. Their populations run from 29,431 to 43,131, against 36,212 here. Or use our
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Inver Grove Heights at 165.7/100K violent and 1,394.6/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
How many crimes were reported in Inver Grove Heights?
In 2024, Inver Grove Heights reported 60 violent crimes and 505 property crimes, for a total of 565 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Inver Grove Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Inver Grove Heights's violent crime rate decreased by 7.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.4%.
What is the most common crime in Inver Grove Heights?
The most common crime type in Inver Grove Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.2% of all reported crimes (408 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Inver Grove Heights 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Inver Grove Heights, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.