Crime in Albert Lea, Minnesota
Major crime in Albert Lea is about the U.S. rate per resident: 59% lower for persons crimes and 18% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Burglary stands out most, at 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Albert Lea for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Albert Lea
The middle half of Albert Lea residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 118; the typical (median) resident's is 74. The citywide figure (104) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5026.7%
- 50–10040.2%
- 100–20024.3%
- 200–4007.0%
- 400+1.8%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.5% in a year; across Minnesota it fell 1.8%
Change in expected crimes, with Minnesota as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Albert Lea against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
627 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Albert Lea; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Albert Lea has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lake Mills (18 mi), is 74% below Albert Lea's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Albert Lea
What are the most common crimes in Albert Lea?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 107 a year), shoplifting (about 77 a year) and burglary (about 45 a year). Compared with the U.S., burglary stands out most: 1.6 times the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Albert Lea's figures add up its 17 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Albert Lea has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 1.8% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 17,138. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Albert Lea, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/albert-lea
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