Crime in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota
Major crime in Brooklyn Center is 2.0 times the U.S. rate per resident: 1.8 times for persons crimes and 2.0 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 3.1% 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 3.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Brooklyn Center 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 Brooklyn Center
The middle half of Brooklyn Center residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 58 and 133; the typical (median) resident's is 85. The citywide figure (196) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5018.0%
- 50–10037.5%
- 100–20039.9%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+4.6%
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 rose 3.1% 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.
Brooklyn Center against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
51 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Brooklyn Center; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Brooklyn Center 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, Brooklyn Park (3 mi), is 43% below Brooklyn Center's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Brooklyn Center
What are the most common crimes in Brooklyn Center?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 392 a year), other larceny (about 176 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 129 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 3.9 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. Brooklyn Center's figures add up its 28 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Brooklyn Center's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 80.9% 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: 31,722. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/brooklyn-center
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Brooklyn Park3 mi112
- Robbinsdale3 mi96
- Fridley3 mi209
- Crystal3 mi139
- Columbia Heights4 mi96
- New Hope4 mi100
- Spring Lake Park5 mi97
- New Brighton5 mi62