CrimeMetric

Crime in White Bear Lake, Minnesota

Major crime in White Bear Lake is 36% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 29% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.0% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
64
36% below the U.S. rate
34% below the Minnesota rate
down 7.0% in a year
Persons crimes
31
69% below the U.S. rate
57% below the Minnesota rate
down 4.9% in a year
Property crimes
71
29% below the U.S. rate
30% below the Minnesota rate
down 7.2% in a year
Social disorder
51
49% below the U.S. rate
26% 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

Vandalism stands out most, at 16% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in White Bear Lake 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 White Bear Lake

The middle half of White Bear Lake residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 36 and 73; the typical (median) resident's is 42. The citywide figure (64) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of White Bear Lake, 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.
  • 0–5057.3%
  • 50–10022.7%
  • 100–20019.9%
  • 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 6pm81
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am47
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm70
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am42
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.0% in a year; across Minnesota it fell 1.8%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.0%MN -1.8%-20.9%MN -13.1%
Persons crimes-4.9%MN -1.1%-8.0%MN -2.7%
Property crimes-7.2%MN -1.9%-22.1%MN -14.8%
Social disorder-5.4%MN -0.6%-14.1%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

White Bear Lake against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,228 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than White Bear Lake; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Griffin, GA23,671164
Oxford, AL23,663117
Benbrook, TX23,700108
Terrell, TX23,65686
Oakdale, CA23,68370
White Bear Lake, MN23,66564
Clinton, UT23,63139
Solon, OH23,64037

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

Nearby places

White Bear Lake has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mahtomedi (3 mi), is 44% below White Bear Lake's rate.

Maplewood5 mi161
Oakdale6 mi87
White Bear Lake64
Mahtomedi3 mi36
Grant5 mi35

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

Questions about crime in White Bear Lake

What are the most common crimes in White Bear Lake?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 70 a year), theft from vehicle (about 69 a year) and shoplifting (about 43 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 16% 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. White Bear Lake's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • White Bear Lake 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: 23,665. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in White Bear Lake, Minnesota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/mn/white-bear-lake

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100