Minneapolis Sexual assault

Minneapolis · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Minneapolis police open data recorded 686 sexual assault incidents, 1.5% of all 44,562 incidents reported in the city that year and down 0.9% from 2024. That is about 160 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 560 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Minneapolis by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)560——
2025686160down 0.9%
2024692161up 1.0%
2023685160up 10.7%
2022619144down 5.6%
2021656153down 1.6%
2020667156down 18.1%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 5,659 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. Downtown West 40 incidents
  2. Whittier 39 incidents
  3. Loring Park 30 incidents
  4. Willard - Hay 28 incidents
  5. Near - North 27 incidents
  6. Jordan 25 incidents
  7. Midtown Phillips 25 incidents
  8. Elliot Park 24 incidents

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

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Minneapolis in 2025?

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

Is sexual assault going up or down in Minneapolis?

Reported sexual assault was down 0.9% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 10.8% 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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