White Bear Lake, MN has a A safety grade (80/100) with a violent crime rate of 87 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
White Bear Lake (23,106 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
White Bear Lake, MN carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, White Bear Lake, MN shows violent crime at 86.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,324.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% 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
White Bear Lake reported 20 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 23,106. 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 White Bear Lake's 86.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Annandale (86.9), Hawley (87.0), Sauk Rapids (87.4), Chaska (84.9). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 138.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 86.6 in 2024 (-37.4%). The highest observed value was 147.2 in 2023 and the lowest 68.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.1% of the 326 Part I offenses reported in White Bear Lake for 2024, against a median of 10.6% across comparable Minnesota cities — a gap of 4.5 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 76.5% of reported property offenses in White Bear Lake, against a cohort median of 85.7%. The remainder is burglary (36) and motor vehicle theft (36). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 86.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, White Bear Lake ranks 156 of 276 — above 120 of the 275 other Minnesota cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -12.4% 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 White Bear Lake'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 23,106. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 8 Census sq mi, White Bear Lake logged 38 property and 2.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
White Bear Lake's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (72% of 326 offenses; mix index 5,417).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
White Bear Lake offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8 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 | 306 | 1324.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 234 | 1012.7 |
| Burglary | 36 | 155.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 36 | 155.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.3 |
| Violent Crime | 20 | 86.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 14 | 60.6 |
| Rape | 4 | 17.3 |
| Robbery | 2 | 8.7 |
| 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 | 26,036 | 138.3 | 2619.4 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 25,747 | 81.6 | 2474.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 27,700 | 68.6 | 1740.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,097 | 147.2 | 1731.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,106 | 86.6 | 1324.3 |
White Bear Lake Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind White Bear Lake's 326 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 White Bear Lake in population. Their populations run from 22,022 to 24,708, against 23,106 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
White Bear Lake sits at 86.6/100K violent (grade A); the Minnesota cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
White Bear Lake at 86.6/100K violent and 1,324.3/100K property - matched below outside Minnesota (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
86.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,324.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, White Bear Lake reported 20 violent crimes and 306 property crimes, for a total of 326 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, White Bear Lake's violent crime rate decreased by 41.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.5%.
The most common crime type in White Bear Lake is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.8% of all reported crimes (234 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: White Bear Lake 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 White Bear Lake's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 White Bear Lake, MN rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. White Bear Lake is scored in the mid-size municipal band (23,106 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.