Mendota Heights, MN has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 191 per 100,000, 46% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Mendota Heights (11,501 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
Mendota Heights, MN carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 46% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mendota Heights, MN shows violent crime at 191.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 878.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 46% 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.
Small-count caution
Mendota Heights reported 22 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,501. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Mendota Heights's 191.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Austin (191.1), Dawson/Boyd (191.8), Breitung Township (190.1), Mounds View (188.5). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 131.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 191.3 in 2024 (+45.0%). The highest observed value was 209.3 in 2021 and the lowest 131.9 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 191.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mendota Heights ranks 71 of 276 — above 205 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +95.5% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 17.9% of the 123 Part I offenses reported in Mendota Heights 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 75.2% of reported property offenses in Mendota Heights, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (18) and motor vehicle theft (7). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Mendota 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.
Based on 22 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,501. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 9.1 Census sq mi, Mendota Heights logged 11.1 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mendota Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (62% of 123 offenses; mix index 4,238).
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Mendota Heights offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.1 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 | 101 | 878.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 76 | 660.8 |
| Burglary | 18 | 156.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 60.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 8.7 |
| Violent Crime | 22 | 191.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 15 | 130.4 |
| Rape | 6 | 52.2 |
| Robbery | 1 | 8.7 |
| 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 | 11,373 | 131.9 | 1442 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,469 | 209.3 | 2083.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,569 | 138.3 | 1944.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,363 | 184.8 | 1302.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,501 | 191.3 | 878.2 |
Mendota Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mendota Heights's 123 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 Mendota Heights in population. Their populations run from 10,781 to 12,219, against 11,501 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Mendota Heights sits at 191.3/100K violent (grade B); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Mendota Heights at 191.3/100K violent and 878.2/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
191.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
878.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Mendota Heights reported 22 violent crimes and 101 property crimes, for a total of 123 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mendota Heights's violent crime rate increased by 3.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 32.6%.
The most common crime type in Mendota Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.8% of all reported crimes (76 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Mendota 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Mendota Heights's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mendota Heights, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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