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Minneapolis car break-ins: a shared map of smashed windows and rifled-through cars.

Report a car break-in in under a minute. Enough reports show exactly where and when this is happening, and we can share that with MPD and the city to help them respond.

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.

What is a car-related offense? Four MPD offense types: theft from a motor vehicle, motor vehicle theft, theft of vehicle parts, and property damage/vandalism. Resident reports are counted separately. See what each one includes and leaves out.

1,179

car-related offenses recorded by MPD, last 30 days (through Nov 6)

-34.5%

MPD car-related offenses vs. the same 30 days last year

16,044

car-related offenses recorded by MPD, Jan 1 to Nov 6 2026

+3%

MPD car-related offenses vs. Jan 1 to Nov 6 2025

49.6%

of residents who reported a break-in here (119 answered) never told police. Resident reports, not MPD.

Car-related offenses, Jan 1 to Nov 6, every year (MPD data)

MPD data through Nov 6. The newest days can be incomplete while MPD posts them. Resident reports (23 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.

Theft from motor vehicle

Destruction/damage/vandalism of property

Motor vehicle theft

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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Each circle is one block with car-related offenses recorded by MPD in the week ending Nov 6. Resident reports appear as separate dots. Click the map to explore it, including all-crime views. Open the full map →

MPD data last synced Nov 10, 2026 at 1:03 AM CT.

Car-related offenses by month (MPD data)

Theft from vehicles, vehicle theft, parts theft and property damage/vandalism combined. Complete months only.

1,815

May 2026

1,450

Jun 2026

1,808

Jul 2026

2,093

Aug 2026

1,452

Sep 2026

1,271

Oct 2026

So far in 2026, by car-related offense type (MPD data)

MPD offenses, Jan 1 to Nov 6, then resident reports below the line.

Neighborhoods with the most car-related offenses in 2026 (MPD data)

1 Whittier 733 -10%
2 Downtown West 633 -8%
3 Marcy Holmes 626 +39%
4 Lowry Hill East 435 -6%
5 North Loop 427 +17%

All neighborhoods and wards →

Wards with the most car-related offenses in 2026 (MPD data)

1 Ward 10 1,586 -4%
2 Ward 3 1,563 +21%
3 Ward 9 1,475 +6%
4 Ward 5 1,470 +17%
5 Ward 1 1,450 +22%

Car-related offenses recorded by MPD, Jan 1 to Nov 6, 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.

Break-in map (car-related, MPD data and resident reports) Every block with a car break-in, auto theft or parts theft, filtered by type and date. Car crime trends (car-related, MPD data) Theft from vehicles, vehicle theft, parts theft and property damage, year over year. Neighborhoods and wards The car-crime history of each of Minneapolis's 87 neighborhoods and 13 wards. Compare areas (all crimes or car-related) Put neighborhoods or wards side by side, as counts or per 1,000 residents. All crime in Minneapolis (all crimes) Every offense type MPD records, with weekly bulletins, monthly reports and crime near an address. Downloads and methodology CSV files, a JSON API, and exactly how the numbers are built.

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 days can look low. MPD posts records days late, so the latest days fill in over the following week or so. Every figure runs through the newest record (currently Nov 6).
Percent changes. Always the same calendar dates in each year, never a partial year against a full one.

Why this exists

MPD's data has a category for a car getting broken into, "Theft From Motor Vehicle," but no field for how someone got in, so a smashed window and someone rifling through your glovebox land in the same record.

Many people don't report it either. When a window is smashed and nothing is missing, it can feel like a report won't go anywhere, so no record gets created. Multiply that by every car on your block and the data has a gap.

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 share specifics with police and city hall 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.