Crime in North Dakota (2024)
North Dakota agencies reported 15,398 offenses to the FBI in 2024: 2,015 violent crimes, 13,319 property crimes and 64 arsons, across 102 reporting agencies.
Per 100,000 residents
Against a 2024 population of 793,387 (Census estimates). A floor: North Dakota agencies that did not report contribute nothing.
Offenses by category
| Offense | Offenses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Murder & nonnegligent manslaughter | 21 | 0.1% |
| Rape | 395 | 2.6% |
| Robbery | 218 | 1.4% |
| Aggravated assault | 1,381 | 9.0% |
| Burglary | 2,149 | 14.0% |
| Larceny-theft | 9,739 | 63.2% |
| Motor vehicle theft | 1,431 | 9.3% |
| Arson | 64 | 0.4% |
By county
Counties with sufficient reporting coverage (51 of North Dakota's counties).
- Adams County
- Barnes County
- Benson County
- Billings County
- Bottineau County
- Bowman County
- Burke County
- Burleigh County
- Cass County
- Cavalier County
- Dickey County
- Divide County
- Dunn County
- Eddy County
- Emmons County
- Foster County
- Golden Valley County
- Grand Forks County
- Grant County
- Griggs County
- Hettinger County
- Kidder County
- LaMoure County
- Logan County
- McHenry County
- McIntosh County
- McKenzie County
- McLean County
- Mercer County
- Morton County
- Mountrail County
- Nelson County
- Oliver County
- Pembina County
- Pierce County
- Ramsey County
- Ransom County
- Renville County
- Richland County
- Rolette County
- Sargent County
- Sheridan County
- Stark County
- Steele County
- Stutsman County
- Towner County
- Traill County
- Walsh County
- Ward County
- Wells County
- Williams County
Largest reporting agencies
| Agency | Violent | Property | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fargo Police Department | 676 | 5,016 | 5,707 |
| Bismarck Police Department | 210 | 1,813 | 2,028 |
| Grand Forks Police Department | 211 | 1,343 | 1,555 |
| Minot Police Department | 150 | 660 | 826 |
| Williston Police Department | 119 | 630 | 750 |
| Mandan Police Department | 71 | 638 | 714 |
| Dickinson Police Department | 74 | 425 | 499 |
| West Fargo Police Department | 67 | 415 | 484 |
| Jamestown Police Department | 16 | 194 | 211 |
| Wahpeton Police Department | 19 | 175 | 196 |
| Cass County Sheriff's Office | 12 | 153 | 166 |
| Williams County Sheriff's Office | 16 | 122 | 139 |
| Watford City Police Department | 18 | 96 | 114 |
| McKenzie County Sheriff's Office | 12 | 80 | 94 |
| North Dakota State University | 2 | 91 | 93 |
How to read these numbers
Counts are offenses reported by law-enforcement agencies to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting program for 2024(Return A master file, which incorporates the FBI's own NIBRS-to-SRS conversion for agencies that report incident-based data). Nothing here is estimated: an agency that did not report contributes nothing, so totals are floors, not universes.
County figures use headquarters-county assignment: an agency's offenses count in the county where it is headquartered. Sheriff and state-police activity can span county lines; a county's figure is best read as "offenses reported by agencies based here." Counties where reporting agencies cover less than half of the policed population get no page; between 50% and 80% the page carries a visible partial-coverage notice.
Rates per 100,000 residentsuse Census Population Estimates (PEP) for the same year as the crime data. They appear only where the population served by agencies headquartered in a county is within 10% of the population that lives there. Where a police force covers several counties — the NYPD polices five boroughs from its Manhattan headquarters — the two geographies disagree, and a rate would be wrong by several times over in both directions. Those counties show counts without a rate rather than a number that looks authoritative and isn't.
Because non-reporting agencies contribute nothing, every rate here is a floor: the true rate is at least this high. Rates are most comparable between places with similar reporting coverage, which each page states.
Violent crime = murder + rape + robbery + aggravated assault. Property crime = burglary + larceny-theft + motor vehicle theft. Arson is tracked separately (from the FBI's de-duplicated SRS/NIBRS arson data) and is excluded from the property composite, following FBI practice. Aggravated assault excludes simple assault.
These figures will not match the FBI's published national estimates(which impute for non-reporting agencies) or the 12-month quarterly trend windows elsewhere on this site — different universes, both documented.