Minnesota

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In 2022, 281 violent crime incidents per 100,000 residents were reported to police in Minnesota. This is 21 percent higher than the violent crime rate in 2012.

The crime rate in Minnesota in 2022 was 26 percent lower than the United States average.

In 2022, 57 percent of violent crimes reported to police in Minnesota were not solved. This is 5 percentage points higher than the unsolved rate in 2012.

  • Capital:  St. Paul
  • Population:  5,576,606
  • Area:  86,936 sq mi
  • Violent Crime Rank:  33rd
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Featured Minnesota Missing Cases

Areli Pacheco

Missing: Nov 18, 2007
Areli Pacheco, a 23-year-old woman, was last seen on November 18, 2007, in Burnsville, Minnesota. Sh ...Read More

Becky Look

Missing: Oct 01, 1995
Becky Jo Look, a 41-year-old woman, disappeared on October 1, 1995, from Hallock, Minnesota. She had ...Read More

Mary Chagnon

Missing: Aug 23, 1973
Mary Brunette Chagnon, aged 54, disappeared on August 23, 1973, from Duluth, Minnesota. She had left ...Read More

Christopher Kerze

Missing: Apr 20, 1990
Christopher Kerze, a 17-year-old from Eagan, Minnesota, was last seen on April 20, 1990. On that day ...Read More

Donald Pauling

Missing: Apr 15, 1965
Donald Edward Pauling, a 31-year-old man from Minneapolis, Minnesota, went missing on April 15, 1965 ...Read More

Kateri Mishow

Missing: Jan 05, 2007
Kateri Marie Mishow, a 22-year-old Native American woman, was last seen in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ...Read More

Haley Aymar

Missing: Dec 03, 2015
Haley Elizabeth Aymar, a 24-year-old woman from Mounds View, Minnesota, was last seen on December 3, ...Read More

Tamara Bradley

Missing: Sep 30, 1994
Tamara Colleen Bradley, 30 years old, was last seen on September 30, 1994, leaving her workplace, Fe ...Read More

Vickie Sundgaard

Missing: Apr 19, 1987
Sundgaard was last seen at a party on Cedar Street in Alexandria, Minnesota during the early morning ...Read More

Charles Johnson

Missing: Jun 26, 2002
Charles Johnson, 51, was last seen on June 26, 2002, in Two Harbors, Minnesota. His canoe was later ...Read More
Featured Minnesota Murder Cases

Danny Wright

Murdered: Aug 07, 2010
Danny Wright, a 54-year-old man, was tragically killed in a hit-and-run incident in Saint Paul, Minn ...Read More

Alamagan Mohamed Abdullahi

Murdered: Jun 07, 2015
Alamagan Mohamed Abdullahi, age 25, was tragically shot and killed on June 7, 2015, in Minneapolis. ...Read More

Candice Latrice Hackett

Murdered: Apr 02, 2017
Candice was shot in the early morning hours of ...Read More

Darnell Lavery Wilkes

Murdered: Jan 26, 2016
Darnell Lavery Wilkes, a 25-year-old Minneapolis man, was tragically killed on January 26, 2016. The ...Read More

Roy Lee Davis

Murdered: May 04, 2016
Roy Lee Davis, a 20-year-old man, was fatally shot on May 4, 2016, in Minneapolis. Davis was known f ...Read More

Eric Ferguson

Murdered: Jun 16, 2015
Eric Darvell Ferguson, a 22-year-old from Minneapolis, Minnesota, was tragically killed in a drive-b ...Read More

Ronald Richard Edberg

Murdered: Sep 27, 2012
Ronald Richard Edberg, 58, was one of six victims tragically killed in the Accent Signage Systems sh ...Read More

Rami Yerahmiel Cooks

Murdered: Sep 27, 2012
**This case is resolved.**. Andrew John Engeldinger was a former employee who was recently fired. S ...Read More

Tommy Bardney

Murdered: Apr 02, 2013
Tommy Bardney, a 34-year-old man, was shot and killed on April 2, 2013, in North Minneapolis. Bardne ...Read More

Phelandis Depure Jackson

Murdered: Jun 12, 2010
Phelandis Depure Jackson, aged 29, was tragically shot and killed on June 12, 2010, in Minneapolis. ...Read More

Arnong Rajvong

Murdered: Jul 13, 2013
On July 13, 2013, 26-year-old Arnong Rajvong was tragically shot and killed while sitting in her car ...Read More