The Minneapolis crime rate was about 5,713 reported offenses per 100,000 residents in 2023, roughly 138 percent above Minnesota’s statewide average and about 143 percent above the national average.1Minnesota Department of Public Safety. 2023 Uniform Crime Report Since then the trend has mostly pointed down. Homicides fell from 76 in 2024 to 64 in 2025, and most other categories dropped as well, though auto theft shows early signs of climbing again in 2026.
What the 2023 Rate Actually Covers
The overall figure sounds alarming on its own, so the split matters. Property offenses made up roughly 80 percent of reported crime in Minneapolis in 2023, running at about 4,558 per 100,000 residents. Violent crime came in at approximately 1,155 per 100,000.1Minnesota Department of Public Safety. 2023 Uniform Crime Report The violent rate was more than three times Minnesota’s statewide figure, but most incidents a Minneapolis resident is statistically likely to encounter involve stolen property rather than physical harm.
Density is part of the gap. Minneapolis is a dense urban center, and the state average is pulled down by rural counties with much thinner populations. Even accounting for that, the city’s rate sits well above both state and national comparisons.
How the Rate Changed in 2024 and 2025
Statewide property crime fell about 5 percent from 2023 to 2024, with motor vehicle thefts dropping 19 percent and burglary ticking up slightly at 1.5 percent.2Minnesota Department of Public Safety. 2024 Uniform Crime Report to the Legislature Minneapolis didn’t follow that pattern cleanly. Homicides rose from 72 in 2023 to 76 in 2024, running against the national trend of falling murder rates. Robberies also climbed roughly 10 percent in 2024 after two years of decline.
Then 2025 brought broad improvement. Homicides fell to 64 for the full year, roughly a 16 percent drop. Earlier in 2025, city officials reported steep declines across nearly every category compared to the same period in 2024:
- Robberies down 47 percent
- Carjackings down 40 percent
- Auto thefts down 24 percent
- Aggravated assaults down 11 percent
- Burglaries down about 10 percent
- Larceny and theft down about 6 percent
Nationally, the FBI estimated reported violent crime fell about 4.5 percent in 2024 compared to 2023.3Federal Bureau of Investigation. FBI Releases 2024 Reported Crimes in the Nation Statistics The Minneapolis declines came on top of that broader shift.
The one soft spot is auto theft. Early 2026 reports suggest vehicle thefts have risen again compared to the same months in 2025, potentially reversing the prior year’s gains. That category has been volatile since the pandemic surge and has been slow to return to pre-2020 levels anywhere in the country.
Violent Crime in Minneapolis
Violent crime in Minneapolis covers homicide, aggravated assault, robbery, rape, and carjacking. These offenses are a minority of total reported crime but drive most of how the city is perceived and ranked.
Homicides
Minneapolis homicides peaked during the pandemic era and have trended down since. The 64 recorded in 2025 are a meaningful improvement over 76 in 2024, though the count remains above pre-2020 levels. The Minneapolis Police Department cleared about 65 percent of 2024 homicides, which affects whether cases translate into prosecutions and whether retaliatory cycles continue.
Robberies and Carjackings
Robberies had fallen for two years before jumping 10 percent in 2024. That reversed quickly. Early 2025 data showed robberies down 47 percent and carjackings down 40 percent compared to the same stretch of 2024. MPD launched a Curfew Task Force in August 2024 targeting juvenile offenders during early morning weekend hours. Since the task force began, the city reported a 66 percent reduction in new youth offenders committing violent crimes and nearly a 40 percent reduction in juvenile violent crime and auto theft overall.4City of Minneapolis. Minneapolis Police Department Arrests Six Juveniles Involved in Violent Car Jacking – UPDATE with Juvenile Task Force Stats
Aggravated Assaults
Aggravated assaults are the largest share of violent crime in Minneapolis by volume. Early 2025 figures showed an 11 percent decline from the same period in 2024, along with a 32 percent drop in gunshot wound victims. Severity, not just frequency, appears to have eased.
Property Crime in Minneapolis
Property crime is what drives the overall rate. At about 4,558 per 100,000 in 2023, these offenses outnumber violent ones roughly four to one.1Minnesota Department of Public Safety. 2023 Uniform Crime Report
Motor Vehicle Theft
Auto theft surged during and after the pandemic, and Minneapolis was hit harder than most places. Statewide motor vehicle thefts fell about 19 percent from 2023 to 2024.2Minnesota Department of Public Safety. 2024 Uniform Crime Report to the Legislature Minneapolis continued the drop into early 2025, down 24 percent year over year. Those gains look fragile. Early 2026 reports indicate auto theft is climbing again, with hundreds more vehicles stolen compared to the same stretch of 2025.
Burglary, Larceny, and Theft
Burglaries rose modestly in recent years before declining roughly 10 percent in early 2025. Larceny and general theft dipped about 6 percent over the same period. These categories move less dramatically than carjacking or auto theft but touch far more households.
Why a Citywide Rate Can Mislead
Crime varies enormously within Minneapolis. Central neighborhoods see the highest concentration of reported incidents; the northeast part of the city tends to have the lowest. A single citywide number can hide the fact that some blocks sit well below the average while others run several times above it.
Reporting gaps matter too. Every figure here reflects crimes reported to police. The Bureau of Justice Statistics estimates that in 2024, about 52 percent of violent victimizations and roughly 70 percent of property victimizations nationwide went unreported, with victims citing fear of retaliation, a belief that police would not help, or a sense that the incident was too minor.5Bureau of Justice Statistics – Office of Justice Programs. Criminal Victimization, 2024 The actual experience of crime in the city is higher than any reported rate.
Comparisons across years also need care. Minneapolis has completed the FBI’s transition to the National Incident-Based Reporting System, which captures more detail per incident than the older summary-based format.6Department of Justice. Department of Justice Review of the Transition of Law Enforcement Agencies to the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) A rise in reported offenses can reflect better counting rather than more crime.
One staffing figure is worth knowing because it affects the gap between a crime happening and a response arriving: median response time for priority calls reached about eight and a half minutes in 2025, compared to roughly six minutes five years earlier. MPD had about 614 officers as of 2025, well below pre-2020 levels, and is still rebuilding.
Checking Current Numbers Yourself
For current, neighborhood-level data, the Minneapolis Police Department publishes rolling dashboards covering arrests, use of force, shots fired, and offense locations.7City of Minneapolis. Crime Maps and Dashboards8City of Minneapolis. MPD MStat Crime Data: Crime Dashboard – Home9Bureau of Criminal Apprehension. BCA Data Portal10Minnesota Department of Public Safety. Data and Reports