Community safety · Minneapolis · data through November 2026

How safe is Northeast Minneapolis?

Northeast Minneapolis covers 13 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Minneapolis index. Its median safety index is 55/100 — close to the citywide median of 55. Columbia Park scores highest at 90/100; St. Anthony East lowest at 41/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 3 of 13 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 6 moderate, 4 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Northeast, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Columbia Park	90/100	Low risk	50
2 Marshall Terrace	80/100	Low risk	99
3 Waite Park	76/100	Low risk	129
4 Northeast Park	67/100	Moderate	264
5 Audubon Park	59/100	Moderate	299
6 Bottineau	56/100	Moderate	301
7 Windom Park	55/100	Moderate	398
8 St. Anthony West	52/100	Moderate	427
9 Sheridan	51/100	Moderate	404
10 Beltrami	49/100	Elevated	477
11 Holland	46/100	Elevated	477
12 Logan Park	44/100	Elevated	549
13 St. Anthony East	41/100	Elevated	711

How Northeast compares across Minneapolis

Communities (safest first)	Median index	Neighborhoods
Southwest	80/100	9
Nokomis	72/100	11
Camden	64/100	9
Longfellow	59/100	5
Calhoun Isle	57/100	9
Northeast (this page)	55/100	13
University	52/100	7
Near North	44/100	6
Powderhorn	33/100	8
Phillips	27/100	4
Central	23/100	6

Common questions

What is the safest neighborhood in Northeast Minneapolis?

Columbia Park has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Northeast Minneapolis, at 90/100 (low risk), from 50 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Marshall Terrace (80/100) and Waite Park (76/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Northeast Minneapolis has the most reported crime?

St. Anthony East has the lowest index in Northeast Minneapolis, at 41/100, with 711 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 Northeast Minneapolis safe?

Across its 13 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 55/100, against 55 across Minneapolis. 3 rate low risk, 6 moderate, 4 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 Northeast Minneapolis is the median of its 13 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. The time SafeRoute reads is when an incident was reported, not when it occurred, so time-of-day patterns are not shown. 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.