Rochester, MN Crime


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Rochester, MN has a significantly lower rate of violent crime than the US average. This is encouraging and suggests that the city takes safety seriously. Additionally, they do not suffer from an overly high rate of property crime either, with their 32.3 rate being slightly below the national average. This could be indicative of a strong focus on community policing or other methods to ensure that residents feel safe in their homes and neighborhoods. Overall, Rochester appears to be a relatively safe place to live compared with many other cities across the country.

Crime is ranked on a scale of 1 (low crime) to 100 (high crime)

Rochester violent crime is 11.0. (The US average is 22.7)
Rochester property crime is 32.3. (The US average is 35.4)

NOTE: Click on the links below to see charts for each crime category.
 Violent Crimes  - Murder  Rape  Robbery  Assault
 Property Crimes  - Burglary  Larceny  Auto Theft
Rochester, MN Crime History
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Year Violent Murder Rape Robbery Assault Property Burglary Larceny Auto
2000311.32.443.364.9200.72818.43632269.1186.3
2001292.93.543.876.1169.53710.5628.42861.9220.2
20022651.150.349.1164.53164.9519.72439.6205.6
2004247.7046.166.5135.12820.9412.82248.4159.8
2005278.1054.375.6148.12626.1448.52042.3135.3
2006299.22.153.484.71592641.6508.41979.4153.8
2007277.3142.42600.54681961.6170.9
2008464.6132.22836.3530.92120.5184.9
2009156.9139.42792.4390.62299.7102.1
2010155.2117.12312.7379.91832.9100
20110.960.494.82159.13951681.382.7
20121.850.795.82505.9455.91968.182
2013195.1045.649.2100.32332.3391.21847.393.9
2014183.51.841.246.5941989.9302.61588.998.5
2015175.90.941.844.488.92262.3415.81765.680.9
2016213.6067.143.2103.32187.93311740.4116.5
2017194.40.952.939.9100.71859.8249.91524.885
20181944.349.635105.12080.5301.61667.8111.1
2019214.80.852.428.7132.81881.3238.41535.5107.4

   Crime in Nearby Cities
City Violent
per 100k
Property
per 100k
Pop. Miles Data
Year
Stewartville, MN163.01,611.75,469122002
Kasson, MN92.1782.96,104132019
Plainview, MN30.3667.73,292182019
Zumbrota, MN57.51,207.93,277212019
St. Charles, MN79.5980.73,550212019
   Crime in Similar Size Cities
City Violent
per 100k
Property
per 100k
Pop. Miles Data
Year
Cedar Rapids, IA257.43,335.6121,1891482019
Des Moines, IA712.04,090.5199,3901792019
Davenport, IA594.83,826.5102,7151962019
Rockford, IL1,174.23,327.0149,5862112019
Sioux Falls, SD483.23,045.3158,3542152019

   Visualize the relationship between violent and property crime in similar size cities.

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Roch (and Minnesota) is a great place IF you live off the govt dole; subsidize undesirable things (through generous welfare benefits, lax law enforcement and sentences,  More

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Rochester is very vanilla. As a progressive, this place is not good. The area leans conservative and you'll see Trump signs everywhere... so that tells you the type of  More

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Over 4 years ago

I moved here over 20 years ago from California and I was in shock for the first couple of years that people actually lived in such a cold climate! Winter starts around  More

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