Montevideo, MN has a A+ safety grade (100/100) with a violent crime rate of 0 per 100,000, .
FBI UCR 2022 · per-capita rates · small city
Montevideo is a small municipal reporter (5,180 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Montevideo, MN FBI UCR crime rates and PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2022, Montevideo, MN shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 38.6 per 100,000. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Montevideo reported 0 violent offences in 2022 against a population of 5,180. 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.
2020–2022 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 79.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 0.0 in 2022 (-100.0%). The highest observed value was 79.9 in 2020 and the lowest 0.0 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2022, Montevideo ranks 220 of 273 — above 0 of the 272 other Minnesota cities whose 2022 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% against the cohort median of 107.2. 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
The nearest comparable 2022 records to Montevideo's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Akeley (0.0), Atwater (0.0), Audubon (0.0), Barnesville (0.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 0.0% of the 2 Part I offenses reported in Montevideo for 2022, against a median of 9.8% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 9.8 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.
Property counts dominate Montevideo'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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,180. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 4.7 Census sq mi, Montevideo logged 0.4 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2022.
Violent offenses are only 0% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 2 | 38.6 |
| Burglary | - | - |
| Larceny-Theft | - | - |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | - | - |
| Arson | - | - |
| Violent Crime | 0 | 0 |
| Murder | - | - |
| Rape | - | - |
| Robbery | - | - |
| Aggravated Assault | - | - |
The chart omits 2023, 2024 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2022 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,009 | 79.9 | 319.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,995 | 40 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,180 | 0 | 38.6 |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 5,247 | - | - |
| 2024 | Insufficient reporting | 5,180 | - | - |
Montevideo Police Department filed the 2022 UCR row behind Montevideo's 2 reported offenses (3-year span 2020-2022).
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 Montevideo in population. Their populations run from 5,016 to 5,336, against 5,180 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2022, Montevideo reported 0 violent crimes and 2 property crimes, for a total of 2 reported offenses.
Small-city read: Montevideo is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2022; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Montevideo's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2022 Montevideo, 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. Montevideo is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (5,180 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.