Crime in Golden Valley, Minnesota
Major crime in Golden Valley is 45% below the U.S. rate per resident: 73% lower for persons crimes and 38% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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 Golden Valley is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Golden Valley 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 Golden Valley
The middle half of Golden Valley residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 85; the typical (median) resident's is 32. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5062.5%
- 50–10023.2%
- 100–20014.3%
- 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 fell 8.2% 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.
Golden Valley against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,369 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Golden Valley; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Golden Valley has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Robbinsdale (3 mi), is 1.7 times Golden Valley's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Golden Valley
What are the most common crimes in Golden Valley?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 53 a year), shoplifting (about 50 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 49 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 13% 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. Golden Valley's figures add up its 20 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Golden Valley has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 5.4% 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: 21,268. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Golden Valley, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/golden-valley
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Robbinsdale3 mi96
- Crystal3 mi139
- St. Louis Park3 mi163
- New Hope4 mi100
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