Minneapolis Theft
Minneapolis · Theft · updated 2026-11-12
In 2025, the latest complete year, Minneapolis police open data recorded 7,643 theft incidents, 17.2% of all 44,562 incidents reported in the city that year and down 7.5% from 2024. That is about 1,783 per 100,000 residents, compared with 1,637 per 100,000 across the 60 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 6,442 theft incidents have been published.
Theft in Minneapolis by year
| Year | Incidents | Per 100K | vs prior year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | 6,442 | — | — |
| 2025 | 7,643 | 1,783 | down 7.5% |
| 2024 | 8,265 | 1,928 | up 10.3% |
| 2023 | 7,495 | 1,749 | down 1.0% |
| 2022 | 7,574 | 1,767 | up 5.6% |
| 2021 | 7,174 | 1,674 | up 1.4% |
| 2020 | 7,074 | 1,651 | down 23.6% |
Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 61,360 theft incidents.
Neighborhoods with the most theft (2025)
- Downtown West 717 incidents
- Longfellow 386 incidents
- Loring Park 324 incidents
- Whittier 301 incidents
- Marcy Holmes 298 incidents
- North Loop 280 incidents
- Lowry Hill East 279 incidents
- Nicollet Island - East Bank 200 incidents
Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.
Questions
How many theft incidents were reported in Minneapolis in 2025?
7,643, according to Minneapolis Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.
Is theft going up or down in Minneapolis?
Reported theft was down 7.5% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 0.9% compared with 2022 (roughly flat 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.
Other crime types in Minneapolis
- Minneapolis other 8,504 in 2025
- Minneapolis vandalism 7,024 in 2025
- Minneapolis assault 6,010 in 2025
- Minneapolis theft from vehicle 4,864 in 2025
- Minneapolis auto theft 4,817 in 2025
- Minneapolis burglary 2,299 in 2025
- Minneapolis fraud 1,357 in 2025
- Minneapolis robbery 1,010 in 2025
- Minneapolis sexual assault 686 in 2025
- Minneapolis shooting 341 in 2025
- Minneapolis homicide 7 in 2025