St. Louis Park, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 49% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, St. Louis Park, MN shows violent crime at 179.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,327.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 49% 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.
C safety grade
179.5/100K violent
3327.1/100K property
-49% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for St. Louis Park, MN
Comparable rate records
St. Louis Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Minnesota cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to St. Louis Park's 179.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Winsted (180.3), Oakdale (180.8), Cloquet (175.0), Deerwood (173.0). 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
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 130.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 179.5 in 2024 (+37.6%). The highest observed value was 205.3 in 2021 and the lowest 130.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
St. Louis Park sits mid-pack among comparable Minnesota cities
At 179.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, St. Louis Park ranks 79 of 276 — above 197 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +83.4% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 5.1% of the 1,739 Part I offenses reported in St. Louis Park for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 5.5 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 St. Louis 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
St. Louis Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 10.6 Census sq mi, St. Louis Park logged 155.3 property and 8.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
St. Louis Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 1,739 offenses; mix index 6,362).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+5.6%
170 → 179.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-0.2%
3333.3 → 3327.1/100K
Property offenses lead St. Louis Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs MN
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,650
3327.1
1624.6
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,371
2764.6
-
-
Burglary
159
320.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
120
242
-
-
Arson
1
2
-
-
Violent Crime
89
179.5
259.4
352
Aggravated Assault
67
135.1
-
-
Rape
14
28.2
-
-
Robbery
8
16.1
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
St. Louis Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
St. Louis Park property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
St. Louis Park Police Department
Reporting agency for St. Louis Park NIBRS-participating
St. Louis Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind St. Louis Park's 1,739 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Minnesota
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Minnesota cities closest to St. Louis Park in population. Their populations run from 39,638 to 55,028, against 49,592 here. Or use our
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St. Louis Park at 179.5/100K violent and 3,327.1/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, St. Louis Park reported 89 violent crimes and 1,650 property crimes, for a total of 1,739 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in St. Louis Park?
From 2023 to 2024, St. Louis Park's violent crime rate increased by 5.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.2%.
What is the most common crime in St. Louis Park?
The most common crime type in St. Louis Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.8% of all reported crimes (1,371 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: St. Louis Park 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 St. Louis Park, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.