Lakeville, MN has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 77 per 100,000, 78% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 78,436 residents, Lakeville 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Lakeville, MN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 78% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lakeville, MN shows violent crime at 76.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 571.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 78% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 43.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 76.5 in 2024 (+75.1%). The highest observed value was 142.1 in 2021 and the lowest 43.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Lakeville's 76.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wabasha (76.8), Pelican Rapids (77.0), Madison Lake (75.9), La Crescent (75.8). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 76.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lakeville ranks 166 of 276 — above 110 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -22.6% against the cohort median of 98.8. 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 Lakeville'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.
Across 36.9 Census sq mi, Lakeville logged 12.1 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lakeville's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 508 offenses; mix index 5,701).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lakeville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (36.9 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 448 | 571.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 378 | 481.9 |
| Burglary | 42 | 53.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 28 | 35.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 1.3 |
| Violent Crime | 60 | 76.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 34 | 43.3 |
| Rape | 23 | 29.3 |
| Murder | 2 | 2.5 |
| Robbery | 1 | 1.3 |
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 | 68,688 | 43.7 | 762.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 71,092 | 142.1 | 894.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 75,548 | 78.1 | 683 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 76,929 | 94.9 | 701.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 78,436 | 76.5 | 571.2 |
Lakeville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lakeville's 508 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 Lakeville in population. Their populations run from 71,492 to 88,003, against 78,436 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lakeville sits at 76.5/100K violent (grade A); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lakeville at 76.5/100K violent and 571.2/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
76.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
571.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-19.4% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lakeville reported 60 violent crimes and 448 property crimes, for a total of 508 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lakeville's violent crime rate decreased by 19.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 18.6%.
The most common crime type in Lakeville is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.4% of all reported crimes (378 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Lakeville'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Lakeville's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lakeville, 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. Lakeville is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (78,436 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.