Photo: Gabriel Vanslette · CC BY 3.0Reported crime per resident in Mendota Heights fell 41% from 2023 to 2025
Per 1,000 residents a year, 1.4 violent crimes and 9.9 incidents of property crime were recorded, against 3.0 and 20.2 in the rest of Minnesota. What’s more, its letter overall is B (#76 of 166 graded towns in Minnesota): close to the middle of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025.
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 Mendota Heights
Mendota Heights reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 Minnesota towns on Mendota Heights’ borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Eagan (C+), Bloomington (D), St. Paul (D). Neighbors ↓
A job center
Mendota Heights has 11,753 jobs based in town for 11,475 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Mendota Heights’ 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; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Mendota Heights property | Rest of Minnesota property | Mendota Heights violent | Rest of Minnesota violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 18.6 | 24.8 | 1.3 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 12.8 | 21.8 | 1.8 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 8.8 | 20.7 | 1.9 | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 8.2 | 18.3 | 0.5 | 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 | Mendota Heights | Rest of Minnesota | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.3 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.8 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.9 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mendota Heights’ police reported 49 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.4 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 Mendota Heights 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
100 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.
6 violent and 94 property, as reported to the FBI by Mendota Heights’ police.
Four people died in crashes on Mendota Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Mendota Heights had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died.
That is about what 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 Mendota Heights’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mendota Heights’s own rate (6.9) 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.
Mendota Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendota Heights | B | 1.4 | 9.9 |
| Eagan | C+ | 1.1 | 16.9 |
| St. Paul | D | 5.8 | 29.0 |
| Bloomington | D | 3.0 | 34.0 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Minnesota towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendota Heights | B | 1.4 | 9.9 |
| Dayton | A | 0.4 | 4.6 |
| North Branch | A | 0.7 | 3.2 |
| St. Peter | A− | 0.9 | 6.0 |
| Grand Rapids | B+ | 1.1 | 8.8 |
| Cambridge | B | 0.5 | 14.3 |
The five graded Minnesota towns closest to Mendota Heights’ population (11,475), 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 Mendota Heights. 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 Mendota Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (11,489 in 2025); our figure for Mendota Heights is 11,475 (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 Mendota Heights
Is Mendota Heights, MN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mendota Heights reports less crime per resident than 57% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #76 of 166 in Minnesota. Its police reported 1.4 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 Mendota Heights?
1.4 violent and 9.9 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 Mendota Heights safer than Eagan?
Eagan reports more crime per resident than Mendota Heights: Eagan grades C+ for safety and Mendota Heights B. Eagan’s police reported 1.1 violent and 16.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Mendota Heights?
Mendota Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mendota Heights”. 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.