Spring Lake Park, MN has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 285 per 100,000, 19% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Spring Lake Park is a small municipal reporter (7,007 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Spring Lake Park, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Spring Lake Park, MN shows violent crime at 285.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,812.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% below 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
Spring Lake Park reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 7,007. 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 285.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Spring Lake Park ranks 37 of 276 — above 239 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +191.7% 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 Spring Lake Park's 285.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hopkins (281.8), Worthington (281.0), Albany (280.9), Alexandria (290.7). 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 515.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 285.4 in 2024 (-44.7%). The highest observed value was 515.9 in 2020 and the lowest 142.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 13.6% of the 147 Part I offenses reported in Spring Lake Park for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 3.0 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.
Property counts dominate Spring Lake Park'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 20 reported violent incidents in a population of 7,007. 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 Census sq mi, Spring Lake Park logged 63.7 property and 10 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Spring Lake Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 147 offenses; mix index 5,749).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Spring Lake Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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 | 127 | 1812.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 110 | 1569.9 |
| Burglary | 10 | 142.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 7 | 99.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 20 | 285.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 157 |
| Rape | 7 | 99.9 |
| Robbery | 2 | 28.5 |
| Murder | 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 | 6,978 | 515.9 | 3267.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 6,960 | 359.2 | 2945.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,163 | 265.3 | 2191.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,029 | 142.3 | 1849.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 7,007 | 285.4 | 1812.5 |
Spring Lake Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Spring Lake Park's 147 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 Spring Lake Park in population. Their populations run from 6,512 to 7,540, against 7,007 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Spring Lake Park sits at 285.4/100K violent (grade C); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Spring Lake Park reported 20 violent crimes and 127 property crimes, for a total of 147 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Spring Lake Park's violent crime rate increased by 100.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 2%.
The most common crime type in Spring Lake Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.8% of all reported crimes (110 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Spring Lake Park 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 Spring Lake Park's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Spring Lake Park, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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