New Ulm, MN has a A safety grade (84/100) with a violent crime rate of 72 per 100,000, 79% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
New Ulm (13,858 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
New Ulm, MN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 79% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, New Ulm, MN shows violent crime at 72.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,017.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 79% 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.
Small-count caution
New Ulm reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 13,858. 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 New Ulm's 72.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Barnesville (72.3), Belgrade/Brooten (72.5), St. Peter (72.8), Edina (73.1). 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 72.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, New Ulm ranks 176 of 276 — above 100 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -27.0% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.6% of the 151 Part I offenses reported in New Ulm for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 4.0 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 68.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 72.2 in 2024 (+5.7%). The highest observed value was 72.2 in 2024 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.
Property counts dominate New Ulm'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 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 13,858. 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 10.2 Census sq mi, New Ulm logged 13.9 property and 1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
New Ulm's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 151 offenses; mix index 7,370).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
New Ulm offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.2 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 | 141 | 1017.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 129 | 930.9 |
| Burglary | 8 | 57.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 28.9 |
| Arson | 1 | 7.2 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 72.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 9 | 64.9 |
| Rape | 1 | 7.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 13,181 | 68.3 | 918 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,106 | 45.8 | 961.4 |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 14,067 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,991 | 28.6 | 507.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,858 | 72.2 | 1017.5 |
New Ulm Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind New Ulm's 151 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 New Ulm in population. Their populations run from 13,523 to 14,615, against 13,858 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
New Ulm sits at 72.2/100K violent (grade A); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
New Ulm at 72.2/100K violent and 1,017.5/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
72.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,017.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, New Ulm reported 10 violent crimes and 141 property crimes, for a total of 151 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, New Ulm's violent crime rate increased by 152.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 100.5%.
The most common crime type in New Ulm is larceny-theft, accounting for 85.4% of all reported crimes (129 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: New Ulm 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 New Ulm's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 New Ulm, 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. New Ulm is scored in the mid-size municipal band (13,858 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.