Photo: Tony Webster from Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0For property crime, Oak Park Heights trails 84% of U.S. towns per resident
Both towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Oak Park Heights’s Safety Grade, C− (#146 of 166 graded towns in Minnesota), rests on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025: more crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 29% from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 2.6 violent crimes and 23.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 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 Oak Park Heights
2 of the 2 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 Minnesota towns on Oak Park Heights’ borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Bayport (A), Stillwater (B+). Baytown Township, Stillwater Township and Lake Elmo have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
A job center
Oak Park Heights has 4,754 jobs based in town for 4,625 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 Oak Park 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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (2.6) 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Oak Park Heights property | Rest of Minnesota property | Oak Park Heights violent | Rest of Minnesota violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 36.4 | 24.8 | 0.4 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 29.6 | 21.8 | 2.5 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 20.8 | 20.6 | 3.9 | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 21.4 | 18.2 | 1.3 | 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.
Crime in Oak Park 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Oak Park Heights | Rest of Minnesota | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.4 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.5 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.9 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.3 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Oak Park Heights’ police reported 36 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.0 in the rest of Minnesota and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
105 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 99 property, as reported to the FBI by Oak Park Heights’ police.
No one died in a crash on Oak Park Heights’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 Oak Park Heights’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Oak Park Heights’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Oak Park Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Park Heights | C− | 2.6 | 23.9 |
| Stillwater | B+ | 0.9 | 7.9 |
| Bayport | A | 0.3 | 3.2 |
| Baytown Township | — | — | — |
| Stillwater Township | — | — | — |
| Lake Elmo | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Baytown Township, Stillwater Township and Lake Elmo have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Minnesota towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Park Heights | C− | 2.6 | 23.9 |
| Sauk Centre | B+ | 0.6 | 10.7 |
| Windom | B− | 2.7 | 7.5 |
| Chisholm | C | 2.5 | 16.2 |
| Park Rapids | C− | 3.6 | 19.0 |
| Dilworth | D | 1.6 | 57.8 |
The five graded Minnesota towns closest to Oak Park Heights’ population (4,625), 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 Oak Park 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 Oak Park Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,633 in 2025); our figure for Oak Park Heights is 4,625 (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 Oak Park Heights
Is Oak Park Heights, MN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Oak Park Heights reports more crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns, a C− Safety Grade and #146 of 166 in Minnesota. Its police reported 2.6 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 Oak Park Heights?
2.6 violent and 23.9 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 Oak Park Heights safer than Stillwater?
Stillwater reports less crime per resident than Oak Park Heights: Stillwater grades B+ for safety and Oak Park Heights C−. Stillwater’s police reported 0.9 violent and 7.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Oak Park Heights?
Oak Park Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Oak Park 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.