St. Paul Sexual assault

St. Paul · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, St. Paul police open data recorded 176 sexual assault incidents, 0.9% of all 18,777 incidents reported in the city that year and up 46.7% from 2024. That is about 57.2 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, 179 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in St. Paul by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)179——
202517657.2up 46.7%
202412039.0down 9.1%
202313242.9down 24.1%
202217456.6down 16.3%
202120867.6up 21.6%
202017155.6up 6.2%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 1,994 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. Payne/Phalen 39 incidents
  2. Capitol River 16 incidents
  3. Greater East Side 16 incidents
  4. Hamline/Midway 14 incidents
  5. Dayton's Bluff 14 incidents
  6. Summit/University 11 incidents
  7. West Seventh 10 incidents
  8. North End 9 incidents

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

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in St. Paul in 2025?

176, according to St. Paul Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is sexual assault going up or down in St. Paul?

Reported sexual assault was up 46.7% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 1.1% compared with 2022 (roughly flat over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: St. Paul 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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