The Crime Indices range from 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime). Our crime rates are based on FBI data.
Violent crime is composed of four offenses: murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, forcible rape, robbery, and aggravated assault.
Property crime includes the offenses of burglary, larceny-theft, motor vehicle theft, and arson. The object of the theft-type offenses is the taking of money or property, but there is no force or threat of force against the victims.
| Cities with the Least Crime Near Owatonna, Minnesota | Crime Index |
| Blooming Prairie, MN | 9.1 |
| Medford, MN | 12.2 |
| Ellendale, MN | 14.0 |
| Owatonna, MN | 23.9 |