Minot, ND carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 9% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Minot, ND shows violent crime at 318.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,403 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 9% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
318.9/100K violent
1403/100K property
-9% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Minot, ND
Comparable rate records
Minot's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the North Dakota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Minot's 318.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Watford City (302.6), Dickinson (297.1), Mandan (287.3), Grand Forks (358.6). 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
Minot reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable North Dakota cities
At 318.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Minot ranks 4 of 23 — above 19 of the 22 other North Dakota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +113.6% against the cohort median of 149.3. 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 make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 18.5% of the 810 Part I offenses reported in Minot for 2024, against a median of 12.5% across comparable North Dakota cities — a gap of 6.1 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 67.0% of reported property offenses in Minot, against a cohort median of 79.2%. The remainder is burglary (113) and motor vehicle theft (105). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 332.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 318.9 in 2024 (-4.1%). The highest observed value was 389.9 in 2023 and the lowest 274.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Minot'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.
Minot's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 27.7 Census sq mi, Minot logged 23.8 property and 5.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Minot leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,522.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (27.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-18.2%
389.9 → 318.9/100K
Property Crime Rate
-4.9%
1475.2 → 1403/100K
Property offenses lead Minot's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs ND
Property Crime
660
1403
1711
1705.7
Larceny-Theft
442
939.6
-
-
Burglary
113
240.2
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
105
223.2
-
-
Arson
16
34
-
-
Violent Crime
150
318.9
352
256.7
Aggravated Assault
103
219
-
-
Rape
25
53.1
-
-
Robbery
21
44.6
-
-
Murder
1
2.1
-
-
Minot Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Minot 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
Minot Police Department
Reporting agency for Minot NIBRS-participating
Minot Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Minot's 810 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 North Dakota
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the North Dakota cities closest to Minot in population. Their populations run from 7,995 to 75,546, against 47,041 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Minot reported 150 violent crimes and 660 property crimes, for a total of 810 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Minot?
From 2023 to 2024, Minot's violent crime rate decreased by 18.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.9%.
What is the most common crime in Minot?
The most common crime type in Minot is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.6% of all reported crimes (442 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Minot 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.