Crime in Grand Forks, North Dakota
Major crime in Grand Forks is about the U.S. rate per resident: 34% lower for persons crimes and 11% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 16.3% 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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Drugs and alcohol and intimidation stand out most, at about 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Grand Forks 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 Grand Forks
The middle half of Grand Forks residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 113; the typical (median) resident's is 81. The citywide figure (103) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5025.8%
- 50–10038.0%
- 100–20023.4%
- 200–40011.4%
- 400+1.4%
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 16.3% in a year; across North Dakota it fell 15.3%
Change in expected crimes, with North Dakota as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Grand Forks against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
221 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Grand Forks; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Grand Forks has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, East Grand Forks (3 mi), is 80% below Grand Forks's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Grand Forks
What are the most common crimes in Grand Forks?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 405 a year), shoplifting (about 295 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 96 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.8 times 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. Grand Forks's figures add up its 47 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Grand Forks has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 24.3% 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: 60,993. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Grand Forks, North Dakota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nd/grand-forks
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- East Grand Forks, MN3 mi21
- Crookston, MN23 mi53
- Red Lake Falls, MN36 mi18
- Grafton39 mi49
- Thief River Falls, MN43 mi57
- Dilworth, MN73 mi246
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