Crime in Forest Lake, Minnesota
Major crime in Forest Lake is 32% below the U.S. rate per resident: 76% lower for persons crimes and 22% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% 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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Every crime type in Forest Lake is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Forest Lake 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 Forest Lake
The middle half of Forest Lake residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 17 and 86; the typical (median) resident's is 40. The citywide figure (68) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5052.9%
- 50–10031.8%
- 100–2009.8%
- 200–4005.5%
- 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 fell 8.1% 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.
Forest Lake against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,149 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Forest Lake; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Forest Lake 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, Wyoming (5 mi), is 63% below Forest Lake's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Forest Lake
What are the most common crimes in Forest Lake?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 89 a year), shoplifting (about 63 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 39 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: about 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. Forest Lake's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Forest Lake'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: 20,868. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Forest Lake, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/forest-lake
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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- Columbus5 mi36
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- Scandia7 mi30
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