Crime in Baxter, Minnesota
Major crime in Baxter is about the U.S. rate per resident: 62% lower for persons crimes and 15% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.2% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 3.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Baxter 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 Baxter
The middle half of Baxter residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 79; the typical (median) resident's is 68. The citywide figure (101) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5049.1%
- 50–10029.4%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–40021.5%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.2% 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.
Baxter against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
545 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Baxter; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Baxter has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Brainerd (4 mi), is about Baxter's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Baxter
What are the most common crimes in Baxter?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 120 a year), other larceny (about 24 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 3.8 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. Baxter's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Baxter has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 0.0% 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: 9,944. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Baxter, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/baxter
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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