Onamia, MN has a F safety grade (15/100) with a violent crime rate of 1412 per 100,000, 301% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Onamia's UCR row covers a small municipal population (850). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to MN and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Onamia, MN carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 301% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Onamia, MN shows violent crime at 1,411.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,764.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 301% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 44.4% of the 27 Part I offenses reported in Onamia for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 33.9 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
Onamia reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 850. 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 1411.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Onamia ranks 1 of 276 — above 275 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +1342.8% 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 Onamia's 1411.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Minneapolis (1160.2), Bemidji (813.7), International Falls (703.7), Brooklyn Center (679.4). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 1044.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1411.8 in 2024 (+35.2%). The highest observed value was 1752.3 in 2021 and the lowest 128.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Onamia's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 850. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 1 Census sq mi, Onamia logged 15.3 property and 12.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Onamia's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (48% of 27 offenses; mix index 4,348).
Violent offenses are 44% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Onamia offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1 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 | 15 | 1764.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 13 | 1529.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 235.3 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 12 | 1411.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 12 | 1411.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 862 | 1044.1 | 4640.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 856 | 1752.3 | 3387.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 806 | 992.6 | 2729.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 780 | 128.2 | 2564.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 850 | 1411.8 | 1764.7 |
Onamia Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Onamia's 27 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 Onamia in population. Their populations run from 788 to 903, against 850 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Onamia sits at 1,411.8/100K violent (grade F); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Onamia reported 12 violent crimes and 15 property crimes, for a total of 27 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Onamia's violent crime rate increased by 1001.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 31.2%.
The most common crime type in Onamia is larceny-theft, accounting for 48.1% of all reported crimes (13 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Onamia's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Onamia's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Onamia, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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