West Hennepin, MN has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 96 per 100,000, 73% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
West Hennepin is a small municipal reporter (5,225 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with MN and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
West Hennepin, MN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 73% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Hennepin, MN shows violent crime at 95.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 363.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 73% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
West Hennepin reported 5 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,225. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Hennepin's 95.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sherburn (95.5), Kasson (97.1), Proctor (97.5), Milaca (97.8). 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 20.8% of the 24 Part I offenses reported in West Hennepin for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 10.3 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 94.7% of reported property offenses in West Hennepin, against a cohort median of 85.6%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 95.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Hennepin ranks 142 of 276 — above 134 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -3.2% against the cohort median of 98.8. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property counts dominate West Hennepin'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 5 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,225. 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.
West Hennepin's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 24 offenses; mix index 5,868).
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
West Hennepin offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 19 | 363.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 18 | 344.5 |
| Burglary | 1 | 19.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 5 | 95.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 57.4 |
| Rape | 2 | 38.3 |
| 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 | 5,995 | 0 | 817.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,955 | 16.8 | 621.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,311 | 37.7 | 677.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,245 | 19.1 | 228.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,225 | 95.7 | 363.6 |
West Hennepin Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Hennepin's 24 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 West Hennepin in population. Their populations run from 5,044 to 5,418, against 5,225 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, West Hennepin reported 5 violent crimes and 19 property crimes, for a total of 24 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West Hennepin's violent crime rate increased by 401%, and the property crime rate increased by 58.9%.
The most common crime type in West Hennepin is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.0% of all reported crimes (18 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: West Hennepin 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 West Hennepin's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West Hennepin, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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