CrimeMetric

Crime in Fairmont, Minnesota

Major crime in Fairmont is 20% below the U.S. rate per resident: 33% lower for persons crimes and 17% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
80
20% below the U.S. rate
17% below the Minnesota rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
67
33% below the U.S. rate
8% below the Minnesota rate
down 5.0% in a year
Property crimes
83
17% below the U.S. rate
18% below the Minnesota rate
down 8.0% in a year
Social disorder
106
6% above the U.S. rate
1.5 times the Minnesota rate
down 5.8% 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

Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Fairmont

The middle half of Fairmont residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 33 and 110; the typical (median) resident's is 82.

Map of Fairmont, 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. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5041.6%
  • 50–10027.4%
  • 100–20031.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm100
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am58
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm95
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am55
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Minnesota it fell 1.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%MN -1.8%-17.0%MN -13.1%
Persons crimes-5.0%MN -1.1%-4.3%MN -2.7%
Property crimes-8.0%MN -1.9%-19.2%MN -14.8%
Social disorder-5.8%MN -0.6%-10.9%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

Fairmont against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

955 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fairmont; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Linthicum, MD10,121105
Cuero, TX10,131100
Shawano, WI10,12393
Fairmont, MN10,13580
Paris, KY10,13464
Fairwood, MD10,15538

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

Nearby places

Fairmont 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, Blue Earth (18 mi), is 68% below Fairmont's rate.

Fairmont80
St. James25 mi51
Windom38 mi48
Jackson27 mi33
Blue Earth18 mi26
Wells37 mi25

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

Questions about crime in Fairmont

What are the most common crimes in Fairmont?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 58 a year), shoplifting (about 29 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 16 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.7 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. Fairmont's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Fairmont 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: 10,135. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100