Crime in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota
Major crime in Detroit Lakes is 20% below the U.S. rate per resident: 43% lower for persons crimes and 15% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% 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 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Detroit Lakes 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 Detroit Lakes
The middle half of Detroit Lakes residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 32 and 95; the typical (median) resident's is 46. The citywide figure (80) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5055.2%
- 50–10022.3%
- 100–20017.8%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+4.7%
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 fell 7.5% 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.
Detroit Lakes against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
957 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Detroit Lakes; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Detroit Lakes has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Park Rapids (37 mi), is 5% above Detroit Lakes's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Detroit Lakes
What are the most common crimes in Detroit Lakes?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 67 a year), other larceny (about 31 a year) and aggravated assault (about 15 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 2.0 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. Detroit Lakes's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Detroit Lakes 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: 10,467. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Detroit Lakes, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/detroit-lakes
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Park Rapids37 mi84
- Fergus Falls38 mi115
- Dilworth41 mi246
- Wadena42 mi73
- Moorhead43 mi121
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- Breckenridge51 mi37