Highland, St. Paul, MN Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Highland is a neighborhood of 25,200 residents in St. Paul, about 4 miles southwest of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Highland?
Violent crime in Highland runs higher than in most US neighborhoods: an A-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 61% of Americans live. Assaults make up 91% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. St. Paul as a whole grades B- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 804 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
39% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Highland as a whole, and 61% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Highland scores 804.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Highland, St. Paul, MN at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Highland in St. Paul, 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 about violent crime in Highland
Robberies happen on streets and sidewalks more often than nationally. In St. Paul as a whole, 48% of reported robberies happen on streets and sidewalks, against 31% nationally.
How Highland compares within St. Paul
Every part of Highland where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Highland run from A to B-.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Highland has less violent crime than 15 of the 17 neighborhoods in St. Paul. It covers much of the Highland and Macalester-Groveland areas.
Is violent crime going up in St. Paul?
Reported violent crime in St. Paul as a whole peaked in 2021 and has fallen 22% since, back near its 2019 level. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 5.7 to 6.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
St. PaulUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve St. Paul. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, St. Paul
Violent, US
2016
+14%
+4%
2017
+15%
+4%
2018
+11%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+32%
+4%
2021
+38%
+6%
2022
+23%
+5%
2023
+8%
+2%
2024
+7%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Highland
CrimeGrade™ estimates Highland has about 8.0 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 40% less than the US as a whole and 49% less than St. Paul as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Highland, about 91% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in St. Paul
The St. Paul Police Department polices Highland; these figures cover St. Paul as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In St. Paul as a whole, 49% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (49%)
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.
Violent crime in Highland and nearby neighborhoods
Highland has less violent crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Macalester-Groveland and Wenonah have less.
Highland looks like a typical neighborhood on the traits that tend to go with violent crime.
Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.21% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 80% 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.34% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 67% 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 assault. 52% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.C (36 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 51% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Highland: C (33 of 100).14 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 62% 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 violent crime costs Highland
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Highland about $21 million a year, or $830 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $4.4 million, or $176 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
