Crime in West Fargo, North Dakota
Major crime in West Fargo is 55% below the U.S. rate per resident: 55% lower for persons crimes and 55% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 27.5% 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 stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West Fargo 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 West Fargo
The middle half of West Fargo residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 20 and 61; the typical (median) resident's is 46.
- 0–5059.1%
- 50–10035.7%
- 100–2005.0%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 27.5% 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.
West Fargo against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
766 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Fargo; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Fargo has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Fargo (4 mi), is 3.8 times West Fargo's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Fargo
What are the most common crimes in West Fargo?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 97 a year), burglary (about 57 a year) and shoplifting (about 49 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. West Fargo's figures add up its 23 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Fargo's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 21.9% 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: 41,069. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Fargo, North Dakota." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/nd/west-fargo
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