Photo: Myotus · CC BY 4.0Spring Lake Park has more property crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns
Among its 3 neighbors with figures, 2 record less crime per resident. Spring Lake Park’s letter overall is C+ (#126 of 166 graded towns in Minnesota): more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, from crimes its police reported through 2023 to 2025. Year on year, 1.8 violent crimes and 17.7 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 Spring Lake Park
2 of the 3 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 3 Minnesota towns on Spring Lake Park’s borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Mounds View (B), Blaine (B−), Fridley (D). Neighbors ↓
Among Minnesota towns, lower
Minnesota’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Spring Lake Park’s 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 ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Spring Lake Park’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (1.8) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Spring Lake Park | Rest of Minnesota | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.7 | 3.4 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.4 | 3.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.9 | 3.1 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Spring Lake Park’s police reported 37 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.8 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 Spring Lake Park 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 | Spring Lake Park property | Rest of Minnesota property | Spring Lake Park violent | Rest of Minnesota violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 21.6 | 24.8 | 2.7 | 3.4 |
| 2023 | 17.9 | 21.8 | 1.4 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 18.1 | 20.6 | 2.9 | 3.1 |
| 2025 | 17.1 | 18.2 | 1.0 | 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.
128 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.
7 violent and 121 property, as reported to the FBI by Spring Lake Park’s police.
No one died in a crash on Spring Lake Park’s roads in 2019–2023
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 Spring Lake Park’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Spring Lake Park’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.
Spring Lake Park and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Lake Park | C+ | 1.8 | 17.7 |
| Fridley | D | 2.7 | 31.9 |
| Mounds View | B | 1.7 | 10.0 |
| Blaine | B− | 0.8 | 14.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Minnesota towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spring Lake Park | C+ | 1.8 | 17.7 |
| Medina | A | 0.5 | 4.6 |
| Jordan | A− | 0.9 | 4.4 |
| Kasson | A− | 1.3 | 4.6 |
| St. Joseph | B+ | 1.7 | 6.2 |
| Crookston | C+ | 3.6 | 8.1 |
The five graded Minnesota towns closest to Spring Lake Park’s population (7,127), 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 Spring Lake Park. 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 Spring Lake Park’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,059 in 2025); our figure for Spring Lake Park is 7,127 (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 Spring Lake Park
Is Spring Lake Park, MN safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Spring Lake Park reports more crime per resident than 64% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #126 of 166 in Minnesota. Its police reported 1.8 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 Spring Lake Park?
1.8 violent and 17.7 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 Spring Lake Park safer than Fridley?
Fridley reports more crime per resident than Spring Lake Park: Fridley grades D for safety and Spring Lake Park C+. Fridley’s police reported 2.7 violent and 31.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Spring Lake Park?
Spring Lake Park’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Spring Lake Park”. 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.