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Safety in Kenyon · FBI data, 2023–2025

Kenyon reports less crime per resident than almost every U.S. town

On crimes reported to the FBI by Kenyon’s police in 2023–2025, it grades A+ for safety.

Violent crime
0.0
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of MN (3.0)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
0.0
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of MN (20.2)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
0
0 violent · 0 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Kenyon’s 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 lower than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the stronger of the two.

Where Kenyon sits
A+ Violent 0.0A+ Property 0.0
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 100%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 99%
A firm grade. Built on 0 reported crimes over three years; ordinary year-to-year swings wouldn’t change the letter.

How TownRatings grades safety →

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, no property crimes reported

And no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (0)Violent crime (0)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Kenyon0.0
Rest of MN2.7
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Kenyon0.0
Rest of MN18.2
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Minnesota.

Show as a table
YearKenyon propertyRest of Minnesota propertyKenyon violentRest of Minnesota violent
20220.024.80.03.4
20230.021.80.03.1
20240.020.60.03.1
20250.018.20.02.7

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

0 crimes reported in 2025

0 violent and 0 property, as reported to the FBI by Kenyon’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft0
Burglary0
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault0
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
0
violent crimes
0
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Kenyon’s police reported 0 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.0 in the rest of Minnesota and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Kenyon’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what is typical for Minnesota towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (4.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Kenyon’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Kenyon’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · Minnesota towns of 2,500–5,000: 4.7

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.

Next door

Kenyon and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Kenyon Township: not gradedKenyon TownshipKenyon
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
KenyonA+0.00.0

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Minnesota towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
KenyonA+0.00.0
RushfordA+0.00.0
AvonA0.44.6
SlaytonA−0.85.1
Mountain LakeB+1.93.6
DundasB0.713.2

The five graded Minnesota towns closest to Kenyon’s population (1,885), by grade.

How to read these numbers

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 Kenyon. 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 Kenyon’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,869 in 2025); our figure for Kenyon is 1,885 (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 Kenyon

Is Kenyon, MN safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Kenyon reports less crime per resident than 100% of U.S. towns, an A+ Safety Grade. Its police reported 0.0 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 Kenyon?

0.0 violent and 0.0 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 crime going up or down in Kenyon?

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.

Who polices Kenyon?

Kenyon’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Kenyon”. 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.