Photo: Widgetkid · CC BY-SA 4.0For property crime, New Hope trails 75% of U.S. towns per resident
Per resident, the graded rate barely moved from 2023 to 2025. Across all the graded crimes, New Hope lands on C+ (#120 of 166 graded towns in Minnesota): more crime per resident than 62% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 1.3 violent crimes and 18.8 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 3.0 and 20.2 in the rest of Minnesota.
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 New Hope
1 of the 3 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 3 Minnesota towns on New Hope’s borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Plymouth (B+), Crystal (C−), Brooklyn Park (C−). Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind New Hope’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds New Hope’s grade up; property crime pulls it down.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | New Hope | Rest of Minnesota | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.3 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.3 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.7 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.9 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
New Hope’s police reported 80 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.3 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 New Hope 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | New Hope property | Rest of Minnesota property | New Hope violent | Rest of Minnesota violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 24.0 | 24.8 | 2.3 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 18.7 | 21.8 | 1.3 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 19.6 | 20.6 | 1.7 | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 18.1 | 18.2 | 0.9 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
389 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.
18 violent and 371 property, as reported to the FBI by New Hope’s police.
Three people died in crashes on New Hope’s roads in 2019–2023
New Hope had 3 fatal crashes in five years, in which three people died; 2 were pedestrians.
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 New Hope’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so New Hope’s own rate (2.8) 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.
New Hope and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope | C+ | 1.3 | 18.8 |
| Crystal | C− | 2.9 | 21.9 |
| Plymouth | B+ | 0.6 | 9.8 |
| Brooklyn Park | C− | 3.4 | 23.7 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Minnesota towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Hope | C+ | 1.3 | 18.8 |
| Golden Valley | B+ | 0.7 | 8.7 |
| Sartell | B | 0.6 | 13.8 |
| Forest Lake | B− | 0.9 | 14.6 |
| South St. Paul | C+ | 2.5 | 14.0 |
| West St. Paul | D | 2.1 | 40.9 |
The five graded Minnesota towns closest to New Hope’s population (20,807), 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 New Hope. 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 New Hope’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (20,465 in 2025); our figure for New Hope is 20,807 (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 New Hope
Is New Hope, MN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, New Hope reports more crime per resident than 62% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #120 of 166 in Minnesota. Its police reported 1.3 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 New Hope?
1.3 violent and 18.8 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 New Hope safer than Crystal?
Crystal reports more crime per resident than New Hope: Crystal grades C− for safety and New Hope C+. Crystal’s police reported 2.9 violent and 21.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices New Hope?
New Hope’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “New Hope”. 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.