Crime Grade · FBI UCR Data · 2025
Cottage Grove, MN Crime Grade
How Cottage Grove grades for violent crime against every other reporting U.S. city — and against the rest of Minnesota — based on the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting data.
National
2/10
vs. all U.S. cities ≥ 25,000 population
Minnesota
1/10
vs. Minnesota cities ≥ 10,000 population
In 2025, the violent crime rate in Cottage Grove, MN was 54.8 per 100,000 residents (24 incidents over a population of 43,759). That puts Cottage Grove Infinity% above the U.S. rate of 0.0 and 75% below the Minnesota statewide rate of 223.2.
Violent crime rate, 5-year trend
Per 100,000 residents. Cottage Grove (red), Minnesota (blue), U.S. average (gray dashed).
Cottage Grove vs. U.S., 2025 — by offense
Rates per 100,000 residents for each offense category.
Full data, last 5 years
Rates per 100,000 residents. Raw counts in parentheses.
| Offense | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violent crime | 96.0(37) | 68.5(28) | 76.0(32) | 39.4(17) | 54.8(24) |
| Murder | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) | 0.0(0) |
| Rape | 18.2(7) | 17.1(7) | 23.8(10) | 16.2(7) | 11.4(5) |
| Robbery | 15.6(6) | 7.3(3) | 0.0(0) | 9.3(4) | 6.9(3) |
| Aggravated assault | 62.3(24) | 44.0(18) | 52.3(22) | 13.9(6) | 36.6(16) |
| Property crime | 1154.8(445) | 944.4(386) | 707.9(298) | 681.6(294) | 619.3(271) |
| Burglary | 171.3(66) | 61.2(25) | 73.6(31) | 60.3(26) | 48.0(21) |
| Larceny | 905.7(349) | 817.2(334) | 612.9(258) | 581.9(251) | 541.6(237) |
| Motor vehicle theft | 75.3(29) | 61.2(25) | 19.0(8) | 39.4(17) | 27.4(12) |
How the Crime Grade is calculated
- Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting via the Crime Data Explorer. Agency-level data, pulled directly. No third-party aggregators, no proprietary score.
- Metric: Violent crime rate per 100,000 residents (murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault), most recent fully-reported year.
- National decile: Cottage Grove's rate placed against all FBI-reporting U.S. cities with population ≥ 25,000. 1 = safest.
- State decile: Same calculation restricted to Minnesota cities with population ≥ 10,000.
- Letter grade: 1–3 = A · 4–5 = B · 6–7 = C · 8 = D · 9–10 = F.
- Refresh: Twice a year. The FBI typically releases the prior year's full data each September.
- Limits: The FBI relies on local agency reporting. Rates reflect what was reported, not what occurred.
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