CrimeMetric

Crime in St. Peter, Minnesota

Major crime in St. Peter is 66% below the U.S. rate per resident: 74% lower for persons crimes and 64% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
34
66% below the U.S. rate
64% below the Minnesota rate
down 7.7% in a year
Persons crimes
26
74% below the U.S. rate
64% below the Minnesota rate
down 6.0% in a year
Property crimes
36
64% below the U.S. rate
64% below the Minnesota rate
down 8.0% in a year
Social disorder
35
65% below the U.S. rate
50% below the Minnesota rate
down 5.7% 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

Every crime type in St. Peter is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in St. Peter 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 St. Peter

The middle half of St. Peter residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 68; the typical (median) resident's is 21. The citywide figure (34) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of St. Peter, 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.
  • 0–5073.5%
  • 50–10026.5%
  • 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.

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 6pm45
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am24
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm37
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am23
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across Minnesota it fell 1.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.7%MN -1.8%-13.7%MN -13.1%
Persons crimes-6.0%MN -1.1%-0.2%MN -2.7%
Property crimes-8.0%MN -1.9%-15.9%MN -14.8%
Social disorder-5.7%MN -0.6%-6.6%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

St. Peter against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,876 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than St. Peter; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Olean, NY13,506214
Maumee, OH13,474104
Canton, IL13,47495
St. Peter, MN13,48134

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

Nearby places

St. Peter 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, Le Sueur (9 mi), is 44% below St. Peter's rate.

Mankato12 mi120
Waseca30 mi63
New Ulm24 mi47
St. Peter34
Jordan28 mi27
Le Sueur9 mi19

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

Questions about crime in St. Peter

What are the most common crimes in St. Peter?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 28 a year), shoplifting (about 22 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 7% 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. St. Peter's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • St. Peter 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: 13,481. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in St. Peter, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/st-peter

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100