Park Rapids, MN has a C safety grade (40/100) with a violent crime rate of 414 per 100,000, 18% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Park Rapids is a small municipal reporter (4,348 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Park Rapids, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 18% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Park Rapids, MN shows violent crime at 414 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,115.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% 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
Park Rapids reported 18 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 4,348. 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 414.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Park Rapids ranks 13 of 276 — above 263 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +323.1% 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 Park Rapids's 414.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Virginia (412.0), Crookston (416.4), St. Cloud (408.4), 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 16.4% of the 110 Part I offenses reported in Park Rapids for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 5.8 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 397.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 414.0 in 2024 (+4.2%). The highest observed value was 414.0 in 2024 and the lowest 227.9 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Park Rapids'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 4,348. 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 7.4 Census sq mi, Park Rapids logged 12.5 property and 2.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Park Rapids's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 110 offenses; mix index 5,967).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Park Rapids offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.4 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 | 92 | 2115.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 83 | 1908.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 115 |
| Burglary | 4 | 92 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 18 | 414 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 391 |
| Rape | 1 | 23 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 4,280 | 397.2 | 3995.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 4,387 | 227.9 | 2575.8 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 4,186 | 310.6 | 2914.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 4,323 | 254.5 | 2313.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 4,348 | 414 | 2115.9 |
Park Rapids Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Park Rapids's 110 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 Park Rapids in population. Their populations run from 4,042 to 4,626, against 4,348 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Park Rapids sits at 414/100K violent (grade C); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Park Rapids reported 18 violent crimes and 92 property crimes, for a total of 110 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Park Rapids's violent crime rate increased by 62.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 8.5%.
The most common crime type in Park Rapids is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.5% of all reported crimes (83 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Park Rapids 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 Park Rapids's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Park Rapids, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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