Minneapolis Fraud

Minneapolis · Fraud · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Minneapolis police open data recorded 1,357 fraud incidents, 3.0% of all 44,562 incidents reported in the city that year and down 7.3% from 2024. That is about 317 per 100,000 residents, compared with 309 per 100,000 across the 58 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 1,122 fraud incidents have been published.

Fraud in Minneapolis by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)1,122——
20251,357317down 7.3%
20241,464342up 10.3%
20231,327310up 21.2%
20221,095255down 18.6%
20211,345314down 10.7%
20201,507352down 32.1%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 11,588 fraud incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most fraud (2025)

  1. Downtown West 127 incidents
  2. Whittier 50 incidents
  3. Marcy Holmes 49 incidents
  4. Elliot Park 44 incidents
  5. Loring Park 40 incidents
  6. Near - North 36 incidents
  7. North Loop 35 incidents
  8. Jordan 34 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many fraud incidents were reported in Minneapolis in 2025?

1,357, according to Minneapolis Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is fraud going up or down in Minneapolis?

Reported fraud was down 7.3% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 23.9% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Minneapolis Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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