Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0No grade for Devils Lake, but its recorded crime is here
The nearest town with a Safety Grade is Grafton, 71 miles away, graded B. There are no FBI figures for Devils Lake by itself for 2023–2025, so the grade has nothing to work from.
For every 1,000 residents, about 41 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 5 violent crimes, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Devils Lake’s police reported
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| Year | Devils Lake | Rest of North Dakota | Devils Lake | Rest of North Dakota |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 40.6 | 26.4 | 4.9 | 3.5 |
| 2023 | not reported | 25.9 | not reported | 3.4 |
| 2024 | not reported | 23.4 | not reported | 3.3 |
| 2025 | not reported | 20.1 | not reported | 2.8 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of North Dakota. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
328 crimes reported in 2022
2022 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
35 violent and 293 property, as reported to the FBI by Devils Lake’s police.
The nearest North Dakota towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grafton | B | 71 mi | 1.3 | 9.9 |
| Grand Forks | C− | 84 mi | 3.0 | 22.8 |
| Jamestown | B− | 84 mi | 1.4 | 14.9 |
| Valley City | B | 92 mi | 0.9 | 10.7 |
| Minot | C | 111 mi | 3.3 | 13.4 |
| Lincoln | A− | 126 mi | 0.6 | 4.8 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Devils Lake. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Devils Lake.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
No one died in a crash on Devils Lake’s roads in 2019–2023
That is about what is typical for North Dakota towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Devils Lake’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Devils Lake’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.
Devils Lake and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Creel Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Creel Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
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 Devils Lake. 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 Devils Lake’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,212 in 2022); our figure for Devils Lake is 7,333 (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 Devils Lake
Is Devils Lake, ND safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Devils Lake. Devils Lake has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest North Dakota towns with a grade are Grafton (B, 71 mi), Grand Forks (C−, 84 mi), Jamestown (B−, 84 mi).
Who polices Devils Lake?
Devils Lake’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Devils Lake”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Devils Lake.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2022, 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.