County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Minnehaha County, SD
At 197,214 residents, Minnehaha County is a large county in South Dakota. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Minnehaha County, SD reported 19 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Minnehaha County, SD agencies reported 37 violent and 157 property offenses. That equals about 19 violent and 80 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
37 violent offenses
19/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Minnehaha County, SD
Position in the state cohort
Minnehaha County reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable South Dakota counties
At 18.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Minnehaha County ranks 34 of 41 — above 7 of the 40 other South Dakota counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is -56.6% against the cohort median of 43.2. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 28.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 18.8 in 2024 (-35.1%). The highest observed value was 33.0 in 2021 and the lowest 18.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 19.1% of the 194 Part I offenses reported in Minnehaha County for 2024, against a median of 27.5% across comparable South Dakota counties — a gap of 8.4 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.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
157
Burglary
34
Larceny-Theft
98
Motor Vehicle Theft
25
Arson
0
Violent Crime
37
Murder
0
Rape
3
Robbery
1
Aggravated Assault
33
Reporting Agency
Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Minnehaha County's crime figures on this page originate from Minnehaha County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in South Dakota
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.