Crime in Rochester, Minnesota
Major crime in Rochester is 24% below the U.S. rate per resident: 49% lower for persons crimes and 18% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.8% 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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Rape / sexual assault and shoplifting stand out most, at about 12% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Rochester 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 Rochester
The middle half of Rochester residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 84; the typical (median) resident's is 42. The citywide figure (76) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5056.2%
- 50–10028.7%
- 100–2009.6%
- 200–4004.2%
- 400+1.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 16.8% 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.
Rochester against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
205 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Rochester; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Rochester has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Byron (9 mi), is 74% below Rochester's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Rochester
What are the most common crimes in Rochester?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 517 a year), shoplifting (about 433 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 246 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 12% above 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. Rochester's figures add up its 84 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Rochester has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 33.2% 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: 122,279. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Rochester, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/rochester
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100