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Minnesota Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Minnesota cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
70
Supported Minnesota cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Minneapolis
Violent Crime has declined 8% since 2021.
11.2 / 1k
2 Bemidji
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
9.0 / 1k
3 Brooklyn Center
Violent Crime has increased 16% since 2021.
7.2 / 1k
4 Brainerd
Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021.
4.7 / 1k
5 Virginia
Violent Crime has declined 28% since 2021.
4.2 / 1k
6 Maplewood
Violent Crime has increased 24% since 2021.
4.2 / 1k
7 Roseville
Violent Crime has increased 2% since 2021.
4.1 / 1k
8 Brooklyn Park
Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021.
3.5 / 1k
9 Moorhead
Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021.
3.4 / 1k
10 Hopkins
Violent Crime has increased 17% since 2021.
3.4 / 1k
11 Columbia Heights
Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021.
3.3 / 1k
12 Crystal
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
3.3 / 1k
13 Austin
Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021.
3.2 / 1k
14 Bloomington
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
3.2 / 1k
15 Fergus Falls
Violent Crime has increased 7% since 2021.
3.2 / 1k
16 Alexandria
Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021.
3.2 / 1k
17 Faribault
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
3.1 / 1k
18 Fridley
Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
19 Richfield
Violent Crime has declined 22% since 2021.
2.8 / 1k
20 Mankato
Violent Crime has declined 23% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
21 Red Wing
Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021.
2.6 / 1k
22 Duluth
Violent Crime has declined 39% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
23 Marshall
Violent Crime has declined 17% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
24 Owatonna
Violent Crime has declined 24% since 2021.
2.5 / 1k
25 Coon Rapids
Violent Crime has declined 4% since 2021.
2.3 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Minnesota cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.