Community safety · Minneapolis · data through September 2026

How safe is Southwest Minneapolis?

Southwest Minneapolis covers 9 neighborhoods in SafeRoute's Minneapolis index. Its median safety index is 82/100 — above the citywide median of 55, so a typical neighborhood here reads safer than a typical one across Minneapolis. Armatage scores highest at 93/100; King Field lowest at 54/100.

These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. 6 of 9 neighborhoods here rate low risk, 3 moderate, 0 elevated and 0 high risk.

Every neighborhood in Southwest, safest first

Neighborhood	Index	Band	Incidents
1 Armatage	93/100	Low risk	33
2 Fulton	86/100	Low risk	57
3 Kenny	84/100	Low risk	77
4 Linden Hills	82/100	Low risk	80
5 Lynnhurst	82/100	Low risk	81
6 East Harriet	77/100	Low risk	104
7 Tangletown	71/100	Moderate	153
8 Windom	71/100	Moderate	149
9 King Field	54/100	Moderate	298

How Southwest compares across Minneapolis

Communities (safest first)	Median index	Neighborhoods
Southwest (this page)	82/100	9
Nokomis	73/100	11
Camden	63/100	9
Longfellow	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 Southwest Minneapolis?

Armatage has the highest SafeRoute safety index in Southwest Minneapolis, at 93/100 (low risk), from 33 reported incidents within 1 km of its center. Fulton (86/100) and Kenny (84/100) follow.

Which neighborhood in Southwest Minneapolis has the most reported crime?

King Field has the lowest index in Southwest Minneapolis, at 54/100, with 298 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 Southwest Minneapolis safe?

Across its 9 neighborhoods the median SafeRoute safety index is 82/100, against 55 across Minneapolis. 6 rate low risk, 3 moderate, 0 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 Southwest Minneapolis is the median of its 9 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.