Crime in Cottage Grove, Minnesota
Major crime in Cottage Grove is 61% below the U.S. rate per resident: 80% lower for persons crimes and 56% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are about flat 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 Cottage Grove is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Cottage Grove 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 Cottage Grove
The middle half of Cottage Grove residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 14 and 32; the typical (median) resident's is 17. The citywide figure (39) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5087.2%
- 50–1006.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4006.8%
- 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 0.4% 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.
Cottage Grove against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
824 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Cottage Grove; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Cottage Grove has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, St. Paul Park (3 mi), is 5% above Cottage Grove's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Cottage Grove
What are the most common crimes in Cottage Grove?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 126 a year), other larceny (about 73 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 41 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 12% 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. Cottage Grove's figures add up its 25 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Cottage Grove's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 7.5% 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: 44,816. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Cottage Grove, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/cottage-grove
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- St. Paul Park3 mi42
- Newport4 mi41
- Woodbury6 mi73
- Inver Grove Heights6 mi71
- South St. Paul7 mi79
- Hastings8 mi50
- West St. Paul9 mi219
- Mendota Heights10 mi52