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Safest cities in North Dakota? Lowest and highest property-crime candidates

Use this hub to compare validated North Dakota city candidates by reported selected property-offense rate. It is a cautious city-page index, not a statewide safety ranking or personal-risk score.

Candidate-city rate 16.57 per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score

Validated cities1Current candidate pages

Candidate population25,647Sum of listed city estimates

Selected offenses425FBI NIBRS offense records

Highest-rate city candidates

Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.

25,647 residents Dickinson 16.57 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Lowest-rate city candidates

Searchers often ask for the safest cities in a state. This section answers that intent carefully by showing the lowest reported selected property-offense rates among validated city candidates only.

25,647 residents Dickinson 16.57 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

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North Dakota city candidates

City	Population	Selected offenses	Rate per 1,000	Trend
Dickinson	25,647	425	16.57	Roughly stable

Important context

These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.

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