Northside Hester Park is a neighborhood of 2,620 residents in St. Cloud, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
Is Northside Hester Park in St. Cloud safe?
Yes, crime in Northside Hester Park is low, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of A-. Because most US neighborhoods are safe as well, Northside Hester Park sits near the middle: safer than the neighborhoods where 41% of Americans live. Violent crime grades A- and property crime B+. St. Cloud as a whole grades A-. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Northside Hester Park run from A to B-, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 784 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
41% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Northside Hester Park as a whole, and 59% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Northside Hester Park scores 784.
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 Northside Hester Park, St. Cloud, MN at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Northside Hester Park in St. Cloud, 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 Northside Hester Park
Theft at about triple the US rate. Northside Hester Park has 42.1 thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
Thefts from cars happen in parking lots and garages far more often than nationally. In St. Cloud as a whole, 63% of reported thefts from cars happen in parking lots and garages, against 31% nationally.
Crime rates and types in Northside Hester Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Northside Hester Park has about 95 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and about double the rate for St. Cloud 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 makes up about 44% of crime reported in Northside Hester Park. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 St. Cloud
The St. Cloud Police Department polices Northside Hester Park; these figures cover St. Cloud as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In St. Cloud as a whole, 55% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (55%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Parking lots and garages (39%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (63%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Homes (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (36%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (50%)
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 Northside Hester Park compares with nearby neighborhoods
Northside Hester Park has less crime than 9 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Northdale has less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Northside Hester Park. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Northside Hester Park is safer than 71% of them.
Jobs, nightlife and walkability in Northside Hester Park
Two things set Northside Hester Park apart: it has 370 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole, and 5.3 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft and robbery; here theft sits near the national middle.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.370 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 98% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.5.3 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 98% 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. 69% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C- (30 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 56% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.5 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 95% 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 Northside Hester Park
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Northside Hester Park about $1,991 a year per household, 65% more than 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 $6.6 million a year, or $2,533 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 Northside Hester Park 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. Northside Hester Park is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
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 Northside Hester Park, St. Cloud, MN average a SchoolGrade of F: 23% of students test proficient, against 40% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Northside Hester Park on SchoolGrade
