Community safety · Minneapolis · data through September 2026

How safe is Longfellow, Minneapolis?

Longfellow, Minneapolis covers 5 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Minneapolis index. Its median safety index is 57/100 — close to the citywide median of 55. Cooper scores highest at 70/100; Longfellow lowest at 38/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 0 of 5 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 3 moderate, 2 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Longfellow, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Cooper	70/100	Moderate	143
2 Hiawatha	65/100	Moderate	195
3 Howe	57/100	Moderate	257
4 Seward	44/100	Elevated	436
5 Longfellow	38/100	Elevated	611

How Longfellow compares across Minneapolis

Communities (safest first)	Median index	Neighborhoods
Southwest	82/100	9
Nokomis	73/100	11
Camden	63/100	9
Longfellow (this page)	57/100	5
Calhoun Isle	56/100	9
Northeast	55/100	13
University	51/100	7
Near North	43/100	6
Powderhorn	34/100	8
Phillips	28/100	4
Central	23/100	6

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Longfellow, Minneapolis?

Cooper has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Longfellow, Minneapolis, at 70/100 (moderate), from 143 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Hiawatha (65/100) and Howe (57/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Longfellow, Minneapolis has the most reported crime?

Longfellow has the lowest index in Longfellow, Minneapolis, at 38/100, with 611 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. A low score means more is reported around that center, which busy commercial and transport areas produce simply by having more people in them — it is not a measure of how dangerous a resident's street is.

Is Longfellow, Minneapolis safe?

Across its 5 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 57/100, against 55 across Minneapolis. 0 rate low risk, 3 moderate, 2 elevated and 0 high risk. These describe reported crime only and vary widely within the community — check the individual neighborhood rather than reading one number for the whole of it.

How is the SafeRoute safety index calculated?

SafeRoute weights each incident reported to the Minneapolis Police Department by severity (violence weighs more than shoplifting), sums the last available period within 1 km of the neighborhood center, and normalizes against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 scale — higher is safer. It describes reported crime only; it is not a guarantee of safety. The figure shown for Longfellow, Minneapolis is the median of its 5 neighborhoods — the community is not measured separately.

Methodology

Each incident reported to the Minneapolis Police Department (via Minneapolis Open Data) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the city's own 87 neighborhoods, grouped by its own 11 communities. Minneapolis wraps its neighborhoods around real lakes, so a centre that would otherwise land on open water is moved to the built-up part of the same neighborhood — never onto a neighbouring one. Time-of-day charts use MPD incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

The index compares neighborhoods within Minneapolis. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Minneapolis's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.