Minneapolis, MN has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1160 per 100,000, 230% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · very large city
Minneapolis, MN Crime Rate & Safety
At 423,282 residents, Minneapolis is a very large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against MN and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Minneapolis, MN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 230% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Minneapolis, MN shows violent crime at 1,160.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,142.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 230% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
1160.2/100K violent
5142.9/100K property
+230% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Minneapolis, MN
Position in the state cohort
Minneapolis reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Minnesota cities
At 1160.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Minneapolis ranks 2 of 276 — above 274 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1085.7% 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
Minneapolis's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Minneapolis's 1160.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Onamia (1411.8), Bemidji (813.7), International Falls (703.7), Brooklyn Center (679.4). 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.
Share of the state cohort
Minneapolis carries a large share of the reporting cohort’s total offenses
The 26,680 Part I offenses reported here are 27.5% of the 97,005 reported across all 276 comparable Minnesota cities in 2024. A city this large moves the statewide municipal total on its own, so state-level changes should be read against its population of 423,282 rather than as a uniform shift.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 57.9% of reported property offenses in Minneapolis, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (2,619) and motor vehicle theft (6,547). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 18.4% of the 26,680 Part I offenses reported in Minneapolis for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 7.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window close to where it started
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1169.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1160.2 in 2024 (-0.8%). The highest observed value was 1292.0 in 2021 and the lowest 1137.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Minneapolis'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 very large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Minneapolis's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 54 Census sq mi, Minneapolis logged 403.1 property and 90.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Minneapolis leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,084.
Violent offenses are 18% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (54 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
-3.2%
5310.2 → 5142.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+2%
1137.2 → 1160.2/100K
Property offenses lead Minneapolis's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MN
vs US avg
Property Crime
21,769
5142.9
1624.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
12,603
2977.4
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
6,547
1546.7
-
-
Burglary
2,619
618.7
-
-
Arson
112
26.5
-
-
Violent Crime
4,911
1160.2
259.4
352
Aggravated Assault
2,884
681.3
-
-
Robbery
1,574
371.9
-
-
Rape
377
89.1
-
-
Murder
76
18
-
-
Minneapolis Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Minneapolis property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Minneapolis Police Department
Reporting agency for Minneapolis NIBRS-participating
Minneapolis Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Minneapolis's 26,680 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 Minneapolis in population. Their populations run from 76,577 to 304,051, against 423,282 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Minneapolis reported 4,911 violent crimes and 21,769 property crimes, for a total of 26,680 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Minneapolis?
From 2023 to 2024, Minneapolis's violent crime rate increased by 2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.2%.
What is the most common crime in Minneapolis?
The most common crime type in Minneapolis is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.2% of all reported crimes (12,603 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Minneapolis'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 (very 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 Minneapolis, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.