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North Dakota Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing North Dakota 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
12
Supported North Dakota 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 Williston
Violent Crime has increased 54% since 2021.
6.0 / 1k
2 Fargo
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
5.3 / 1k
3 Mandan
Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021.
5.1 / 1k
4 Watford City
Violent Crime has increased 38% since 2021.
4.7 / 1k
5 Grand Forks
Violent Crime has increased 10% since 2021.
4.4 / 1k
6 Bismarck
Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021.
4.1 / 1k
7 Minot
Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2021.
3.7 / 1k
8 Dickinson
Violent Crime has declined 6% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
9 Wahpeton
Violent Crime has declined 38% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
10 Valley City
Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021.
2.0 / 1k
11 West Fargo
Violent Crime has declined 5% since 2021.
2.0 / 1k
12 Jamestown
Violent Crime has declined 56% since 2021.
1.5 / 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 North Dakota 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.