10 Murder Capitals Of Minnesota For 2020

Do you live in one of the murder capitals of Minnesota?

We all watch the news with horror when we hear about a homicide that happens not that far away from us. While a murder just blocks or even a couple of towns away from your house would make anyone uneasy, in the long run, most likely, where you live is relatively safe.

So we wanted to get the facts straight and dug into the FBI crime data in order to identify the places with the most murders and the highest murder rates per capita in Minnesota.

The result is the Murder Capitals of the North Star State for 2020:

1. Minneapolis (Photos)
2. St. Paul (Photos)
3. Rochester (Photos)
4. St. Paul Park
5. Eagan (Photos)
6. Fergus Falls (Photos)
7. Sauk Rapids (Photos)
8. Plymouth (Photos)
9. Hibbing (Photos)
10. Red Wing (Photos)

The city with highest murder rate in Minnesota? That would be St. Paul Park with 18.5 murders per 100,000 people.

While the city with highest number of murders period? Minneapolis with 31.

Read on below to see how we crunched the numbers and how your town ranked. There were ‘only’ 26 cities in Minnesota where a city reported a murder to the FBI, meaning 98 places had no murder.

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How we calculated the murder capitals of Minnesota

While there are surveys and public polls on what cities in a state are the most dangerous, we didn’t want to rely on speculation and opinion. Instead, we looked at the hard numbers from the FBI’s last year of reporting. Specifically, we analyzed the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report which summarizes the number of murders that may happen in each city per year.

We only looked every single city in Minnesota for which FBI data was available for the most recent FBI Crime In The United States. That left us with 26 cities to rank.

Finally, averaged two scores:

• The raw number of murders in each city
• The murders per person

We felt as if a small place with 2,500 people and two murders makes it a lot more dangerous than a city of 25,000 people with three murders.

We must note that this report is not an analysis of the effectiveness of local police departments. It simply states where murders occurred most frequently.

Minneapolis ) is the county seat of Hennepin County, and the larger of the Twin Cities, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States. As of 2016, Minneapolis is the largest city in the state of Minnesota and 46th-largest in the United States, with an estimated population of 413,651. The Twin Cities metropolitan area consists of Minneapolis, its neighbor Saint Paul, and suburbs which together contain about 3.5 million people, the second-largest economic center in the Midwest, after Chicago.

Saint Paul is the capital and second-most populous city of the U.S. state of Minnesota. As of 2016, the city’s estimated population was 304,442. Saint Paul is the county seat of Ramsey County, the smallest and most densely populated county in Minnesota. The city lies mostly on the east bank of the Mississippi River in the area surrounding its point of confluence with the Minnesota River, and adjoins Minneapolis, the state’s largest city. Known as the “Twin Cities”, the two form the core of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, the 16th-largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.52 million residents.

Rochester is a city in the U.S. State of Minnesota and is the county seat of Olmsted County. Located on the Zumbro River’s south fork in Southeast Minnesota, according to the 2010 United States Census the city has a population of 106,769. The U.S. Census Bureau estimated that the 2016 population was 114,011. It is Minnesota’s third-largest city and the largest city located outside the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of 2015, the Rochester metropolitan area has a population of 215,884. It is the home of the Mayo Clinic and one of IBM’s largest facilities. The city has long been rated as one of the best places to live in the United States by multiple publications such as Money and is one of the most educated cities in the world.

Eagan is a city in Dakota County, Minnesota, United States. The city is south of Saint Paul and lies on the south bank of the Minnesota River, upstream from the confluence with the Mississippi River. Eagan and nearby suburbs form the southern portion of Minneapolis-St. Paul. The population of Eagan was 64,206 at the 2010 census and currently ranks as Minnesota’s 11th largest city. Currently the eleventh largest Minnesota city and the sixth largest suburb in the metro area, Eagan is predominantly a commuter town of both Minneapolis and Saint Paul.

Fergus Falls is a city in and the county seat of Otter Tail County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 13,138 at the 2010 census.

Sauk Rapids is a city in Benton County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 12,773 at the 2010 census and is 13,631 according to 2016 census estimates. It is located on a set of rapids on the Mississippi River near its confluence with the Sauk River.

Plymouth is the seventh largest city in the U.S. state of Minnesota. Located 15 miles west of downtown Minneapolis in Hennepin County, the city is the third largest suburb of Minneapolis-Saint Paul, which is the sixteenth largest metropolitan area in the United States, with about 3.52 million residents. The population was 70,576 at the 2010 Census.

Hibbing is a city in Saint Louis County, Minnesota, United States. The population was 16,361 at the 2010 census. The city was built on the rich iron ore of the Mesabi Iron Range. At the edge of town is the largest open-pit iron mine in the world, the Hull-Rust-Mahoning Open Pit Iron Mine. U.S. Highway 169, State Highway 37, State Highway 73, Howard Street, and 1st Avenue are five of the main routes in Hibbing. The Range Regional Airport offers daily commercial flights between Hibbing and Minneapolis, as well as hosting many private pilots and the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources fire fighting aircraft.

Red Wing is a city in Goodhue County, Minnesota, United States, along the upper Mississippi River. The population was 16,459 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Goodhue County.

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There You Have It – The Places With The Most Murders In Minnesota For 2020

If you’re looking at the places in Minnesota with the most murders, and where residents have the highest chances of being killed themselves, this is an accurate list. Again, these statistics are an indication of where crimes occur, not a statement about the effectiveness of the law enforcement in the areas they serve.

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Detailed List Of The Places With The Most Murder In Minnesota For 2020

Rank	City	Murders	Murders/100K
1	Minneapolis, MN	31.0	7.24
2	St. Paul, MN	15.0	4.84
3	Rochester, MN	5.0	4.27
4	St. Paul Park, MN	1.0	18.49
5	Eagan, MN	2.0	2.99
6	Fergus Falls, MN	1.0	7.23
7	Sauk Rapids, MN	1.0	7.22
8	Plymouth, MN	2.0	2.51
9	Hibbing, MN	1.0	6.25
10	Red Wing, MN	1.0	6.1
11	Bloomington, MN	2.0	2.32
12	Faribault, MN	1.0	4.2
13	Austin, MN	1.0	4.01
14	Fridley, MN	1.0	3.58
15	Brooklyn Center, MN	1.0	3.21
16	Inver Grove Heights, MN	1.0	2.81
17	Richfield, MN	1.0	2.75
18	Shakopee, MN	1.0	2.41
19	Edina, MN	1.0	1.9
20	Apple Valley, MN	1.0	1.89
21	Minnetonka, MN	1.0	1.87
22	Burnsville, MN	1.0	1.62
23	Eden Prairie, MN	1.0	1.54
24	St. Cloud, MN	1.0	1.46
25	Brooklyn Park, MN	1.0	1.23
26	Duluth, MN	1.0	1.16