Crime in Sauk Centre, Minnesota
Major crime in Sauk Centre is 59% below the U.S. rate per resident: 75% lower for persons crimes and 56% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.3% 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 Sauk Centre is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Sauk Centre 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 Sauk Centre
The middle half of Sauk Centre residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 20. The citywide figure (41) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5064.8%
- 50–10035.2%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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.
Highest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.3% 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.
Sauk Centre against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,615 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sauk Centre; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Sauk Centre 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, Long Prairie (17 mi), is 25% below Sauk Centre's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Sauk Centre
What are the most common crimes in Sauk Centre?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 16 a year), other larceny (about 11 a year) and aggravated assault (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 9% 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. Sauk Centre's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Sauk Centre 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: 5,451. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sauk Centre, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/sauk-centre
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Long Prairie17 mi30
- Alexandria22 mi49
- Glenwood23 mi36
- Little Falls33 mi80
- St. Joseph33 mi35
- Sartell36 mi55
- Waite Park37 mi292
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