CrimeMetric

Crime in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota

Major crime in Sauk Rapids is 39% below the U.S. rate per resident: 65% lower for persons crimes and 33% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
61
39% below the U.S. rate
36% below the Minnesota rate
down 8.0% in a year
Persons crimes
35
65% below the U.S. rate
52% below the Minnesota rate
down 5.3% in a year
Property crimes
67
33% below the U.S. rate
34% below the Minnesota rate
down 8.3% in a year
Social disorder
40
60% below the U.S. rate
42% below the Minnesota rate
down 5.4% 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

Shoplifting stands out most, at 11% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Sauk Rapids 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 Sauk Rapids

The middle half of Sauk Rapids residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 31 and 49; the typical (median) resident's is 34. The citywide figure (61) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Sauk Rapids, 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.
  • 0–5081.7%
  • 50–1008.8%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4009.4%
  • 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 6pm81
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am43
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm63
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am40
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.0% in a year; across Minnesota it fell 1.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.0%MN -1.8%-16.1%MN -13.1%
Persons crimes-5.3%MN -1.1%-3.4%MN -2.7%
Property crimes-8.3%MN -1.9%-17.6%MN -14.8%
Social disorder-5.4%MN -0.6%-8.1%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

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

1,269 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Sauk Rapids; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Zebulon, NC14,792111
Palmetto, FL14,791109
Warsaw, IN14,74798
Depew, NY14,76387
Kenmore, NY14,78784
Moberly, MO14,78467
Sauk Rapids, MN14,76561
Harrison, OH14,77441

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

Nearby places

Sauk Rapids has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, St. Cloud (4 mi), is 2.1 times Sauk Rapids's rate.

Waite Park6 mi292
St. Cloud4 mi126
Princeton28 mi64
Sauk Rapids61
Sartell4 mi55
Big Lake26 mi28
Monticello28 mi25

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

Questions about crime in Sauk Rapids

What are the most common crimes in Sauk Rapids?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 52 a year), other larceny (about 46 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 19 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 11% 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. Sauk Rapids's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Sauk Rapids 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: 14,765. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Sauk Rapids, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/sauk-rapids

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100