North Branch, MN has a A safety grade (88/100) with a violent crime rate of 107 per 100,000, 70% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
North Branch (12,137 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
North Branch, MN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 70% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Branch, MN shows violent crime at 107.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 156.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 70% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 40.6% of the 32 Part I offenses reported in North Branch for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 30.1 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.
Small-count caution
North Branch reported 13 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 12,137. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 221.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 107.1 in 2024 (-51.6%). The highest observed value was 265.9 in 2021 and the lowest 50.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Branch's 107.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Prior Lake (106.5), Deer River (110.7), Melrose (110.7), Eagan (103.1). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 73.7% of reported property offenses in North Branch, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (4) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 107.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Branch ranks 132 of 276 — above 144 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +9.5% 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.
Property counts dominate North Branch'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 13 reported violent incidents in a population of 12,137. 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 37.3 Census sq mi, North Branch logged 0.5 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Branch leans on larceny-theft at 44% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,301.
Violent offenses are 41% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a mid-size city.
North Branch offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (37.3 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 | 19 | 156.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 14 | 115.3 |
| Burglary | 4 | 33 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 8.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 13 | 107.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 90.6 |
| Rape | 2 | 16.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,841 | 221.4 | 2158.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 10,908 | 265.9 | 1393.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 11,439 | 157.4 | 1223.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 11,851 | 50.6 | 556.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,137 | 107.1 | 156.5 |
North Branch Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Branch's 32 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 North Branch in population. Their populations run from 11,501 to 12,762, against 12,137 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
North Branch sits at 107.1/100K violent (grade A); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
North Branch at 107.1/100K violent and 156.5/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
107.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
156.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, North Branch reported 13 violent crimes and 19 property crimes, for a total of 32 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, North Branch's violent crime rate increased by 111.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 71.9%.
The most common crime type in North Branch is larceny-theft, accounting for 43.8% of all reported crimes (14 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North Branch 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 North Branch's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Branch, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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