CrimeMetric

Crime in Bloomington, Minnesota

Major crime in Bloomington is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 23% lower for persons crimes and 2.2 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 10.1% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
197
2.0 times the U.S. rate
2.1 times the Minnesota rate
up 10.1% in a year
Persons crimes
77
23% below the U.S. rate
about the Minnesota rate
down 15.9% in a year
Property crimes
223
2.2 times the U.S. rate
2.2 times the Minnesota rate
up 12.7% in a year
Social disorder
100
about the U.S. rate
44% above the Minnesota rate
about flat in a year

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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Crime by type

Shoplifting stands out most, at 5.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Bloomington for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Property crimes

Shoplifting5731,635
Burglary124182

How crime varies across Bloomington

The middle half of Bloomington residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 126; the typical (median) resident's is 73. The citywide figure (197) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Bloomington, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5029.5%
  • 50–10038.2%
  • 100–20019.8%
  • 200–4007.1%
  • 400+5.4%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm217
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am159
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm248
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am168
Trend and outlook

Major crime rose 10.1% in a year; across Minnesota it fell 1.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime+10.1%MN -1.8%-15.9%MN -13.1%
Persons crimes-15.9%MN -1.1%-3.6%MN -2.7%
Property crimes+12.7%MN -1.9%-16.9%MN -14.8%
Social disorder+0.8%MN -0.6%-11.9%MN -7.4%

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.

Similar-size places

Bloomington against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents

36 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bloomington; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:

Medford, OR89,718237
Bloomington, MN89,828197
Carson, CA89,993166
Santa Fe, NM89,634163
Gastonia, NC89,950161
Lawrence, MA89,91665
Troy, MI89,66063
Danbury, CT90,07143

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Bloomington 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, Richfield (3 mi), is 31% below Bloomington's rate.

Bloomington197
Richfield3 mi136
Eagan7 mi87
Edina5 mi86
Hopkins8 mi77
Savage6 mi47

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Bloomington

What are the most common crimes in Bloomington?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 1,635 a year), other larceny (about 583 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 304 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 5.7 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. Bloomington's figures add up its 85 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Bloomington has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 54.4% 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: 89,828. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bloomington, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/bloomington

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100