Crime & Safety in Duluth
Duluth's crime profile is genuinely two-sided in a specific, disclosable way: NeighborhoodScout cites Duluth's overall crime rate (violent and property combined) above more than 97% of Minnesota communities, but this record discloses the real, meaningful decomposition behind that headline figure -- property crime, not violent crime, drives most of that elevated overall rate.
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Learn moreA Real, Elevated Overall Crime Rate -- But Property Crime Drives Most of It
NeighborhoodScout cites Duluth's overall crime rate (violent and property combined) at approximately 32 per 1,000 residents -- placing it above more than 97% of Minnesota communities and among the higher overall rates nationally, with a one-in-31 chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime. This record discloses the real, meaningful decomposition behind that figure: property crime specifically runs approximately 30 per 1,000 (a real one-in-34 chance) -- the primary driver of the elevated overall rate.
Violent Crime Specifically Runs Genuinely Closer to National Levels
Duluth's violent-crime-specific rate runs approximately 2 per 1,000 residents (a real one-in-454 chance), per NeighborhoodScout. Compared against this project's own established national baseline (the FBI's cited 2024 national violent crime rate of 359.1 per 100,000, approximately 3.6 per 1,000), Duluth's violent-crime rate runs genuinely comparable to or somewhat below that national baseline -- a real, disclosed, and meaningfully different picture than the overall crime-rate figure alone suggests.
Do Not Conflate the Overall Rate With a Claim About Violent-Crime Risk Specifically
This record's honest reading: readers should not conflate Duluth's real, elevated overall/property crime figure with a claim that Duluth's violent-crime risk specifically runs above the national average -- this record's sourcing does not support that broader claim. Both facts are true and disclosed at once: the overall/property crime rate runs genuinely elevated, while the violent-crime-specific rate runs genuinely closer to typical.
Property Crime's Real, Practical Implications for Movers
Given the real, disclosed data that property crime specifically drives Duluth's elevated overall crime figure, movers should take practical, property-crime-specific precautions (home security, vehicle security in particular) seriously, distinct from any broader concern about violent-crime risk that this record's data does not support at an elevated level.
Research Current, Address-Specific Data Directly
Per site policy, no specific Duluth neighborhood is characterized as simply 'unsafe.' Research current, address-specific crime data directly for any target area via the Duluth Police Department's own published resources or NeighborhoodScout's address-level tools.
Key takeaways
- NeighborhoodScout cites Duluth's overall crime rate at approximately 32 per 1,000 -- above more than 97% of Minnesota communities -- but property crime (approximately 30 per 1,000) is the primary driver of that figure.
- Duluth's violent-crime-specific rate (approximately 2 per 1,000) runs genuinely comparable to or somewhat below this project's own established national violent-crime baseline.
- Do not conflate Duluth's real, elevated overall/property crime rate with a claim about elevated violent-crime risk specifically -- this record's sourcing does not support that broader claim.
- Property crime's disclosed role as the primary driver of Duluth's overall crime rate has real, practical implications: prioritize property-crime-specific precautions (home and vehicle security).
- Per site policy, no specific Duluth neighborhood is characterized as simply 'unsafe' -- research current, address-specific crime data directly for any target area.
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