West St. Paul, MN has a C safety grade (54/100) with a violent crime rate of 163 per 100,000, 54% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
West St. Paul (22,128 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then MN and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
West St. Paul, MN carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 54% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West St. Paul, MN shows violent crime at 162.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 4,302.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 54% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 424.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 162.7 in 2024 (-61.7%). The highest observed value was 539.3 in 2021 and the lowest 162.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West St. Paul's 162.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Staples (164.4), Hill City (164.5), Inver Grove Heights (165.7), Detroit Lakes (170.5). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 162.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West St. Paul ranks 88 of 276 — above 188 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +66.3% 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
Violent offenses are 3.6% of the 988 Part I offenses reported in West St. Paul for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 7.0 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 West St. Paul'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.
Across 4.9 Census sq mi, West St. Paul logged 194 property and 7.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West St. Paul's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 988 offenses; mix index 5,899).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
West St. Paul offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.9 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 | 952 | 4302.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 740 | 3344.2 |
| Burglary | 157 | 709.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 55 | 248.6 |
| Arson | 5 | 22.6 |
| Violent Crime | 36 | 162.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 85.9 |
| Rape | 10 | 45.2 |
| Robbery | 7 | 31.6 |
| 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 | 20,007 | 424.9 | 7797.3 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 19,840 | 539.3 | 7021.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,113 | 369.4 | 4177.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 22,442 | 191.6 | 4206.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 22,128 | 162.7 | 4302.2 |
West St. Paul Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West St. Paul's 988 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 St. Paul in population. Their populations run from 21,099 to 23,106, against 22,128 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
West St. Paul sits at 162.7/100K violent (grade C); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
West St. Paul at 162.7/100K violent and 4,302.2/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
162.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
4,302.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, West St. Paul reported 36 violent crimes and 952 property crimes, for a total of 988 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, West St. Paul's violent crime rate decreased by 15.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.3%.
The most common crime type in West St. Paul is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.9% of all reported crimes (740 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: West St. Paul 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how West St. Paul's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 West St. Paul, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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