Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Minneapolis (2024)
Minneapolis's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these Minneapolis neighborhoods are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The Minneapolis neighborhoods at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Minneapolis Minneapolis neighborhoods.
Volume, not a safety rate. Minneapolis neighborhood resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Minneapolis neighborhood (a policing/analysis boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Minneapolis zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) via a keyword classifier.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same Minneapolis neighborhoods as the safest neighborhoods in minneapolis list.
- 1Whittier0/100
- 2Downtown West12/100
- 3Lowry Hill East48/100
- 4Marcy Holmes49/100
- 5Lyndale57/100
- 6Jordan58/100
- 7Ventura Village60/100
- 8Powderhorn Park62/100
- 9Loring Park63/100
- 10Seward64/100
- 11Hawthorne64/100
- 12Elliot Park64/100
- 13Midtown Phillips65/100
- 14Longfellow65/100
- 15Central65/100
- 16East Phillips68/100
- 17Near - North69/100
- 18South Uptown70/100
- 19North Loop70/100
- 20Folwell70/100
- 21Willard - Hay72/100
- 22Steven'S Square - Loring Heights75/100
- 23Prospect Park - East River Road75/100
- 24Phillips West76/100
- 25King Field76/100
- 26Cedar Riverside77/100
- 27Hiawatha78/100
- 28East Isles81/100
- 29Howe82/100
- 30Holland82/100
- 31Webber - Camden83/100
- 32Downtown East84/100
- 33Como84/100
- 34Standish86/100
- 35Lowry Hill86/100
- 36Corcoran86/100
- 37Lind - Bohanon87/100
- 38Harrison87/100
- 39Windom88/100
- 40Northeast Park88/100
Showing the top 40 of 86 Minneapolis neighborhoods.
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Most dangerous neighborhoods in Minneapolis — FAQ
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2024. See the full methodology →