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Minneapolis car break-ins: we track smashed windows and rifled-through cars to report to city hall.
Report a car break-in in under a minute. Enough reports and we can show exactly where and when this is happening, hotspots and then take that to the police and city hall.
Below: what MPD has recorded for car-related crime, and what residents report that never reaches the police. The two are kept apart. Looking for crime across the whole city, every offense type? See all crime statistics.
Car-related offenses, Jan 1 to Sep 29, every year (MPD data)
MPD data through Sep 29. The newest 10 days are held back while MPD posts them, and 2019 runs low early in the year, so read that comparison with care. Resident reports (29 in the last 30 days) appear as separate dots on the map and are never added to MPD counts, because a resident who also called the police would be counted twice. They are unverified. See the full trends →
Car-related offenses by year since 2019 (MPD data)
One chart for each of three car-related MPD offense types, counted per year. These are police records only. Resident reports are not included. The line for the current year is a projection, explained below.
Source: this site's import of Minneapolis Police Department open data. The current year (*) is projected: the year-to-date count divided by the share of the year's total that was already recorded by this date in 2019 through last year. The dashed line and hollow marker are the projection, the solid dot is the actual count so far. Hover or tap a year for exact numbers. "Destruction/damage/ vandalism of property" is MPD's own category name and isn't vehicle-specific -- see the map for details. Compare every year, month and neighborhood in Trends →
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MPD data last synced Oct 10, 2026 at 5:19 PM CT.
Car-related offenses by month (MPD data)
Theft from vehicles, vehicle theft, parts theft and property damage/vandalism combined. Complete months only.
So far in 2026, by car-related offense type (MPD data)
MPD offenses, Jan 1 to Sep 29, then resident reports below the line.
Neighborhoods with the most car-related offenses in 2026 (MPD data)
- 1 Whittier 687 -5%
- 2 Marcy Holmes 578 +61%
- 3 Downtown West 566 -9%
- 4 Lowry Hill East 395 -0%
- 5 North Loop 384 +17%
Wards with the most car-related offenses in 2026 (MPD data)
Car-related offenses recorded by MPD, Jan 1 to Sep 29, with the change from the same dates in 2025. Raw counts mostly reflect where people live, work and park, so this is not a ranking of safety.
Explore the data
Car-related cards cover the four MPD car categories. The all-crime hub covers every offense type.
What these numbers mean
- MPD data. Records the Minneapolis Police Department publishes on the city's open data portal. This site imports them daily. Only crimes reported to police are in it.
- Resident reports. Car break-ins that people submit on this site. They are unverified, and some may also be in MPD's data (someone who also called the police). The two can't be matched, so resident reports are never added to any MPD count, percentage or chart.
- Car-related. Four MPD offense types combined: theft from motor vehicle (a break-in or items taken from a car), motor vehicle theft (the whole car), theft of motor vehicle parts or accessories (catalytic converters, wheels), and destruction/damage/vandalism of property. That last type covers all property, such as graffiti and broken windows on buildings, and is not limited to cars.
- All crimes. Every offense type MPD records, from homicide to shoplifting. They live on the all crime statistics page. Car-related crime is a subset of them, so the MPD numbers here are already inside those totals. Don't add the two together.
- Offense. One count of one crime type. A case with two victims is two offenses. Pages that count this way agree with each other.
- Why the newest 10 days are missing. MPD posts records days late. Counting them early would make the latest days look quiet, so every figure stops about ten days before today (currently Sep 29).
- Percent changes. Always the same calendar dates in each year, never a partial year against a full one.
Why this exists
Police don't track this the way we need them to. Their data has a category for a car getting broken into, "Theft From Motor Vehicle," but it doesn't say how someone got in -- a smashed window and someone rifling through your glovebox get lumped into the same record. There's no field for what actually happened.
Most people don't report it either. When a window gets smashed and nothing is missing what are the police going to do about it? A police report is never created and neither is that data point. Multiply that by every car on your block and there's no record of any of it anywhere.
This site fixes both problems. Report a window getting smashed or a car getting rifled through, block by block, date by date. Right now the map is mostly MPD's own numbers -- car break-ins, parts theft, and full vehicle theft -- since that's what exists until enough of you report your own. After a while we can go to police and city hall with specifics about what's going on: which blocks, which times, how often.
Your privacy
Locations shown on the map are snapped to the middle of the block and never the exact address. This is how the MPD saves their data and so do we. It's all in the name of privacy. After you submit a report we also point you to Minneapolis Police Department's online reporting, since this site is meant to complement official channels, not replace them.