Crime & Safety in Bloomington
Bloomington's crime picture is real, disclosed here plainly: NeighborhoodScout's own figures place Bloomington's overall crime rate above approximately 99% of Minnesota communities, and this record adds one real, genuine analytical caveat -- Mall of America's own 40 million-plus annual visitors and MSP airport's traveler volume -- without erasing the underlying number.
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Learn moreA Real, Disclosed Elevated Figure
NeighborhoodScout's own current figures place Bloomington's overall crime rate at approximately 38 per 1,000 residents -- higher than approximately 99% of Minnesota's own communities of all sizes. Property crime specifically ran approximately 34 per 1,000 (odds of approximately 1 in 29), and the overall odds of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime ran approximately 1 in 26.
A Real, Genuine Analytical Caveat -- Not a Dismissal
This record discloses one real, genuine analytical caveat directly: Bloomington's crime rate is calculated against its resident population (approximately 88,673), while the city also hosts an enormous non-resident daytime and visitor population -- Mall of America alone draws more than 40 million visitors annually, plus MSP airport's own daily traveler volume. This dynamic is genuinely common to major retail-hub and airport-adjacent suburbs, where property-crime totals reflect a much larger effective daytime population than the resident count alone implies -- but it does not erase the real, disclosed number above.
Property Crime Runs the Larger Share of the Total
Bloomington's own property-crime rate (approximately 34 per 1,000) makes up the large majority of its overall crime rate (approximately 38 per 1,000), consistent with a retail-hub suburb's own crime composition -- this record did not independently confirm a separately broken-out violent-crime-only rate from the sources reviewed this pass.
Sourcing Caveats
This record's crime-rate figures come from NeighborhoodScout, an aggregator source reviewed this pass, rather than an independently re-verified primary Bloomington Police Department or FBI Uniform Crime Report dataset -- disclosed as a real, modest confidence caveat. Research current, address-specific crime data directly for any specific target neighborhood.
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout's own figures place Bloomington's overall crime rate higher than approximately 99% of Minnesota's own communities.
- Property crime (approximately 34 per 1,000) makes up the large majority of Bloomington's overall crime rate (approximately 38 per 1,000).
- This record discloses a real, genuine analytical caveat -- Mall of America's 40 million-plus annual visitors and MSP's traveler volume -- without erasing the underlying number.
- Crime-rate figures come from an aggregator source reviewed this pass rather than an independently re-verified primary law-enforcement dataset.
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