Dakota County Crime Map & Public-Safety Overview (2026)Minnesota
Dakota County, Minnesota — public-safety reports, calls-for-service and an address-level safety check for any street within the county. Covers approximately 562.558 square miles and 442,204 residents.
Live data status
Dakota County doesn't yet have a real-time open data feed ingested into USACrimeMap. Many US counties publish public-safety data through their sheriff's office or local police agency, but coverage and refresh cadence varies dramatically. As soon as we onboard the responsible agency for Dakota County, real-time police calls and incidents will appear here automatically.
For live, mapped crime data near Dakota County, the closest covered city we currently track is Chicago — about 334.4 miles away.
FBI UCR context (2022) — Minnesota
State-level annual rates from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting program.
Other counties in Minnesota
About this page
USACrimeMap aggregates open public-safety data from US municipal and county law-enforcement agencies into a single mapped, searchable interface. Pages like this one for Dakota County exist as part of our nationwide coverage even before we've ingested the local agency's feed — so visitors can quickly see whether we have data for their area, and can easily browse to nearby covered places.
We never publish names of involved persons, never republish booking photos, and always credit and link back to the source agency. If you represent the law-enforcement agency that covers Dakota County and would like us to onboard your open data feed, please get in touch via the about page.