Hopkins Commercial Historic District · Photo: Tim Kiser (w:User:Malepheasant) · CC BY-SA 2.5The crimes the grade counts fell 35% per resident in Hopkins from 2023 to 2025
Taking everything together, Hopkins scores C+ (#126 of 166 graded towns in Minnesota): more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, measured on crimes its police reported between 2023 and 2025. Police counts work out at 2.7 violent crimes and 14.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Minnesota they are 3.0 and 20.2. Of the 3 towns on its borders with figures, 2 record less crime per resident.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of MN” is every other Minnesota city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Hopkins
2 of the 3 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 3 Minnesota towns on Hopkins’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Edina (B−), Minnetonka (B−), St. Louis Park (C−). Neighbors ↓
Among Minnesota towns, lower
Minnesota’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Hopkins’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 24% of the 166 Minnesota towns we grade, against 36% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Hopkins’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (14.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Hopkins property | Rest of Minnesota property | Hopkins violent | Rest of Minnesota violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 23.2 | 24.8 | 2.0 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 18.8 | 21.8 | 2.6 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 13.0 | 20.7 | 2.8 | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 11.4 | 18.3 | 2.6 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Minnesota.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Hopkins | Rest of Minnesota | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.0 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.6 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.8 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Hopkins’ police reported 150 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.0 in the rest of Minnesota and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Hopkins per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
274 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
51 violent and 223 property, as reported to the FBI by Hopkins’ police.
Seven people died in crashes on Hopkins’s roads in 2019–2023
Hopkins had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died; 3 were pedestrians.
That is more than is typical for Minnesota towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.0 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Hopkins’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hopkins’s own rate (7.4) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Hopkins and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkins | C+ | 2.7 | 14.3 |
| Minnetonka | B− | 1.0 | 15.4 |
| St. Louis Park | C− | 1.5 | 32.2 |
| Edina | B− | 0.7 | 15.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Minnesota towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hopkins | C+ | 2.7 | 14.3 |
| Stillwater | B+ | 0.9 | 7.9 |
| Sartell | B | 0.6 | 13.8 |
| New Hope | C+ | 1.3 | 18.8 |
| South St. Paul | C+ | 2.5 | 14.0 |
| Albert Lea | C | 1.9 | 18.3 |
The five graded Minnesota towns closest to Hopkins’ population (19,523), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Hopkins. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Hopkins’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (19,584 in 2025); our figure for Hopkins is 19,523 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Hopkins
Is Hopkins, MN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Hopkins reports more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #126 of 166 in Minnesota. Its police reported 2.7 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.0 in the rest of Minnesota and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Hopkins?
2.7 violent and 14.3 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Minnesota reports 3.0 and 20.2; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Hopkins safer than Minnetonka?
Minnetonka reports less crime per resident than Hopkins: Minnetonka grades B− for safety and Hopkins C+. Minnetonka’s police reported 1.0 violent and 15.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Hopkins?
Hopkins’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hopkins”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.