Cedar-Riverside is a neighborhood of 9,730 residents in Minneapolis, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis safe?
Crime in Cedar-Riverside is high, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of F. Most US neighborhoods have far less: 93% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Cedar-Riverside. Violent crime grades D- and property crime F. Minneapolis as a whole grades F. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Cedar-Riverside run from D+ to F, so check the map below.
F
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 55 of 1,000Less safe than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
7% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Cedar-Riverside as a whole, and 93% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Cedar-Riverside scores 55.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, MN at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Cedar-Riverside in Minneapolis, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Cedar-Riverside
Car thefts and robberies both run high. In Cedar-Riverside, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 11.9 car thefts and 3.2 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 and 0.62 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Cedar-Riverside
CrimeGrade™ estimates Cedar-Riverside has about 74 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about double the rate for the US as a whole and 23% less than Minneapolis as a whole.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft is the most common crime in Cedar-Riverside, about 30% of everything reported.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Minneapolis
The Minneapolis Police Department polices Cedar-Riverside; these figures cover Minneapolis as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Minneapolis as a whole, 55% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 35% of them, against 18% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (55%)
Night (midnight to 6 am)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (69%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (69%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (47%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Cedar-Riverside compares with nearby neighborhoods
Cedar-Riverside has less crime than 6 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Cedar-Riverside. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Cedar-Riverside has more crime than 75% of them.
Transit, walkability and density in Cedar-Riverside
Two things set Cedar-Riverside apart: it has 70 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby, and a Walk Grade of A- (77 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole. It also combines many bars with dense blocks: places with both tend to report more assault and robbery than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Cedar-Riverside: C+ (45 of 100).70 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 80% of residents here live in walkable areas.A- (77 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 82% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.92% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 77% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.0.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 76% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Cedar-Riverside
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Cedar-Riverside about $3,080 a year per household, more than double the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $39 million a year, or $4,011 per resident.
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Cedar-Riverside means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Cedar-Riverside, Minneapolis, MN average a SchoolGrade of F: 19% of students test proficient, against 25% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Cedar-Riverside on SchoolGrade
