Crime in Scandia, Minnesota
Major crime in Scandia is 70% below the U.S. rate per resident: 78% lower for persons crimes and 68% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.2% 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 Scandia is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Scandia for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Scandia
Scandia is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 31; the middle half of residents live where it is between 23 and 36.
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- 50–1000.0%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 3.2% 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.
Scandia against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,487 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Scandia; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Scandia 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, Forest Lake (7 mi), is 2.2 times Scandia's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Scandia
What are the most common crimes in Scandia?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 9 a year), theft from vehicle (about 3 a year) and burglary (about 3 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 22% 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. Scandia's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Scandia'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: 3,970. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Scandia, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/scandia
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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