Oak Park Heights, MN has a C safety grade (43/100) with a violent crime rate of 389 per 100,000, 11% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Oak Park Heights is a small municipal reporter (4,625 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Oak Park Heights, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 11% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oak Park Heights, MN shows violent crime at 389.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,075.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% above 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.
Small-count caution
Oak Park Heights reported 18 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,625. 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 389.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oak Park Heights ranks 17 of 276 — above 259 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +297.8% 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oak Park Heights's 389.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Robbinsdale (384.9), Gibbon (380.7), Blue Earth (379.6), Roseville (399.9). 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 15.8% of the 114 Part I offenses reported in Oak Park Heights for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 5.2 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 Oak Park Heights'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 18 reported violent incidents in a population of 4,625. 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 2.9 Census sq mi, Oak Park Heights logged 32.8 property and 6.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oak Park Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 114 offenses; mix index 5,544).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Oak Park Heights offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.9 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 | 96 | 2075.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 83 | 1794.6 |
| Burglary | 12 | 259.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 21.6 |
| Arson | 1 | 21.6 |
| Violent Crime | 18 | 389.2 |
| Rape | 11 | 237.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 7 | 151.4 |
| 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 | 5,071 | 0 | 4713.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,031 | 79.5 | 4094.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,721 | 42.4 | 3643.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,735 | 253.4 | 2935.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,625 | 389.2 | 2075.7 |
Oak Park Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oak Park Heights's 114 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 Oak Park Heights in population. Their populations run from 4,327 to 5,016, against 4,625 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Oak Park Heights sits at 389.2/100K violent (grade C); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Oak Park Heights reported 18 violent crimes and 96 property crimes, for a total of 114 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Oak Park Heights's violent crime rate increased by 53.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 29.3%.
The most common crime type in Oak Park Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.8% of all reported crimes (83 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Oak Park Heights is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; 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 Oak Park Heights's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oak Park Heights, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Oak Park Heights is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (4,625 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.