Crime in Columbus, Minnesota
Major crime in Columbus is 65% below the U.S. rate per resident: 80% lower for persons crimes and 61% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 11.0% 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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Every crime type in Columbus is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Columbus 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
Neighborhoods in Columbus
Columbus is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 22; the middle half of residents live where it is between 19 and 66.
- 0–5074.4%
- 50–10025.6%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
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 rose 11.0% 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.
Columbus against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,359 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Columbus; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Columbus has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Forest Lake (5 mi), is 1.9 times Columbus's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Columbus
What are the most common crimes in Columbus?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 13 a year), theft from vehicle (about 4 a year) and burglary (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 41% below 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. Columbus's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Columbus's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 4,405. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Columbus, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/columbus
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Forest Lake5 mi68
- Wyoming7 mi25
- Ham Lake7 mi29
- Centerville8 mi23
- Lino Lakes8 mi34
- East Bethel8 mi33
- Hugo9 mi21
- Circle Pines10 mi99