MN
Central Lakes College-Brainerd
0.40 incidents / 1,000 students
Brainerd, MN · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Central Lakes College-Brainerd
Across 2022–2024, Central Lakes College-Brainerd reported 4 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Aggravated Assault). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Saint Paul College.
- 0.40
- Incidents / 1k students
- #257
- Rank of 2,072
- #27
- MN rank
- 4,981
- Enrolled students
0.40 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Central Lakes College-Brainerd reports 0.40 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 82% below University of Washington-Tacoma Campus. Similar-enrollment scored peers: University of Washington-Tacoma Campus (0.81/1k); Campbell University (3.63/1k); University of Indianapolis (5.00/1k); Roane State Community College (0.60/1k); Tompkins Cortland Community College (1.21/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Saint Paul College (0.19/1k); Rochester Community and Technical College (0.19/1k); Hennepin Technical College (0.22/1k); North Hennepin Community College (0.36/1k); Minnesota State Community and Technical College (2.30/1k); Lake Superior College (0.00/1k); St Cloud Technical and Community College (0.50/1k); Riverland Community College (1.52/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Aggravated Assault.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.40
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #257
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 88%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 1
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 173203 · Central Lakes College-Brainerd 0.40/1k score rate · #257/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO
- RATE-QUIET 0.40/1k
- RANK-UPPER #257/2,072
- ST-MID #27 in state
- BELOW-PEER Roane State Community College · 0.20 back
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 67%
- CAT-LEAD Aggravated Assault
- ENR-SMALL 4,981
- FIRE-ZERO 0 fires filed
Nearest enrollment peer: Roane State Community College (+0.20/1k)
Central Lakes College-Brainerd sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO · peer Roane State Community College. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-QUIET · RANK-UPPER · ST-MID · BELOW-PEER · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-SMALL · FIRE-ZERO. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is Roane State Community College (+0.20/1k). National rank #257 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Central Lakes College-Brainerd reports 0.40 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 82% below University of Washington-Tacoma Campus. Similar-enrollment scored peers: University of Washington-Tacoma Campus (0.81/1k); Campbell University (3.63/1k); University of Indianapolis (5.00/1k); Roane State Community College (0.60/1k); Tompkins Cortland Community College (1.21/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Saint Paul College (0.19/1k); Rochester Community and Technical College (0.19/1k); Hennepin Technical College (0.22/1k); North Hennepin Community College (0.36/1k); Minnesota State Community and Technical College (2.30/1k); Lake Superior College (0.00/1k); St Cloud Technical and Community College (0.50/1k); Riverland Community College (1.52/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Aggravated Assault.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Central Lakes College-Brainerd
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Central on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Central Lakes College-Brainerd · this campus · lowest 0.4
Central Lakes College-Brainerd — this campus · lowest
0.4 per 1,000 students
- Roane State Community College · near 0.6
Roane State Community College — near
0.6 per 1,000 students
- University of Washington-Tacoma Campus · near 0.81
University of Washington-Tacoma Campus — near
0.81 per 1,000 students
- Tompkins Cortland Community College · near 1.21
Tompkins Cortland Community College — near
1.21 per 1,000 students
- University of Indianapolis · highest peer
University of Indianapolis — highest peer
5 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Central Lakes College-Brainerd's 0.40/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Central Lakes College-Brainerd increased from 0 to 1 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 29 MN 2-year peers in this comparison, Central Lakes College-Brainerd is larger than 71% and safer-reporting than 29% - the larger, higher-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
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- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 46
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 79, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 68, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 43
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 82, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 32
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 4
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 57, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 54, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 46, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 18
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 43, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 7
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 32, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 29, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 21, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 21
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 18, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 93, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 96, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 57
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 7, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 4, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 54
- Central Lakes College-Brai…: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 71, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 29
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalon School of Cosmetology | 15 | 0.00 | 0 | 61 |
| White Earth Tribal and Community College | 119 | 0.00 | 4 | 61 |
| Leech Lake Tribal College | 209 | 0.00 | 7 | 61 |
| Red Lake Nation College | 338 | 0.00 | 11 | 61 |
| Northwest Technical College | 978 | 0.00 | 14 | 61 |
| Pine Technical & Community College | 1,794 | 0.00 | 18 | 61 |
| Anoka Technical College | 1,970 | 0.51 | 21 | 21 |
| Minnesota State College Southeast | 2,331 | 0.00 | 25 | 61 |
| Northland Community and Technical College | 2,631 | 0.00 | 29 | 61 |
| South Central College | 2,731 | 0.00 | 32 | 61 |
| Dakota County Technical College | 2,894 | 0.35 | 36 | 36 |
| Central Lakes College-Brainerd (this campus) | 4,981 | 0.40 | 71 | 29 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What changed between 2023 and 2024
Reported on-campus incidents at Central Lakes College-Brainerd rose from 0 to 1. The increase shows up in Fondling (0 to 1).
This describes reported incidents, not crime. Clery counts move with reporting policy, awareness campaigns and how a campus staffs its security authorities, so a rise can reflect better capture of reports and a fall can reflect worse capture. One year of movement at a single campus is not a trend.
What actually gets reported at Central Lakes College-Brainerd
Across 3 reporting years, on-campus incidents were recorded in 3 Clery Act categories here: Aggravated Assault, Fondling and Rape.
The remaining 8 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Arson, Burglary, Incest and Motor Vehicle Theft. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyCentral Lakes College-Brainerd: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 67% (3 → 1 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 3 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 1 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Fondling | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Fire Safety
| Year | Fires | Inj. | Deaths | Cat I | Cat II |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
18 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 2 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 1 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Central Lakes College-Brainerd vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
WA
University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
0.81 incidents / 1,000 students
NC
Campbell University
3.63 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Central Lakes College-Brainerd sits on price and outcomes
At $13,869, Central Lakes College-Brainerd's reported average net price is cheaper than 36% among 80 Minnesota colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $16,863.
- $13,869
- average net price
- $16,863
- Minnesota median
- 3.6×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $6,422
- reported income-bracket spread
Net price moves with income here, but not sharply: $12,264 for families reporting under $30,000 against $18,686 above $110,000, a difference of $6,422. Aid narrows the gap without closing it, so the $13,869 average sits reasonably close to what most brackets report.
Median reported earnings six years after entry are $39,389, roughly 2.8 times a year of net price. That is a workable ratio, though it says nothing about how long the programme takes to finish. 51% complete within six years, so roughly 49% leave without the credential - and those students still carry whatever they paid.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $6,249
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $6,249
- Avg Net Price
- $13,869
- Median Debt
- $11,000
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 14%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $39,389
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $42,162
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 66%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 1,097 similar institutions by enrollment size.
University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
Tacoma, WA · 4,965 enrolled
Safety Score 0.81
Campbell University
Buies Creek, NC · 4,963 enrolled
Safety Score 3.63
University of Indianapolis
Indianapolis, IN · 5,000 enrolled
Safety Score 5.00
Roane State Community College
Harriman, TN · 5,002 enrolled
Safety Score 0.60
Tompkins Cortland Community College
Dryden, NY · 4,958 enrolled
Safety Score 1.21
Closest by National Rank
Central Lakes College-Brainerd (national rank #257) sits near Immaculata University (#256) and Clark College (#258) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Central Lakes College-Brainerd, both outside MN so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Roane State Community College
Harriman, TN · 5,002 enrolled
Safety score 0.60
Tompkins Cortland Community College
Dryden, NY · 4,958 enrolled
Safety score 1.21
Iowa Central Community College
Fort Dodge, IA · 4,949 enrolled
Safety score 1.41
Kansas City Kansas Community College
Kansas City, KS · 5,014 enrolled
Safety score 3.99
Community College of Vermont
Montpelier, VT · 5,028 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Holmes Community College
Goodman, MS · 5,039 enrolled
Safety score 0.40
Central Arizona College
Coolidge, AZ · 5,053 enrolled
Safety score 0.79
Catawba Valley Community College
Hickory, NC · 4,904 enrolled
Safety score 0.20
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Palo Alto College
San Antonio, TX · 12,395 enrolled
Safety score 0.40
Mineral Area College
Park Hills, MO · 2,447 enrolled
Safety score 0.41
Fullerton College
Fullerton, CA · 19,521 enrolled
Safety score 0.41
West Valley College
Saratoga, CA · 7,655 enrolled
Safety score 0.39
Kirkwood Community College
Cedar Rapids, IA · 12,763 enrolled
Safety score 0.39
SUNY Adirondack
Queensbury, NY · 2,576 enrolled
Safety score 0.39
Kilgore College
Kilgore, TX · 7,198 enrolled
Safety score 0.42
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Central Lakes College-Brainerd safe?
Central Lakes College-Brainerd has a safety score of 0.40 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #257 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: University of Washington-Tacoma Campus (0.81/1k). Same-state same-level set: Saint Paul College (0.19/1k); Rochester Community and Technical College (0.19/1k); Hennepin Technical College (0.22/1k); North Hennepin Community College (0.36/1k); Minnesota State Community and Technical College (2.30/1k); Lake Superior College (0.00/1k); St Cloud Technical and Community College (0.50/1k); Riverland Community College (1.52/1k).
What crimes are reported at Central Lakes College-Brainerd?
For calendar year 2024, Central Lakes College-Brainerd reported Fondling (1) in the Criminal Offenses section. Every other category in that section was reported at zero; other Clery tables are separate.
How does Central Lakes College-Brainerd compare to similar schools?
Central Lakes College-Brainerd reports 82% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than University of Washington-Tacoma Campus. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: University of Washington-Tacoma Campus (0.81/1k); Campbell University (3.63/1k); University of Indianapolis (5.00/1k); Roane State Community College (0.60/1k); Tompkins Cortland Community College (1.21/1k). Same-state same-level set: Saint Paul College (0.19/1k); Rochester Community and Technical College (0.19/1k); Hennepin Technical College (0.22/1k); North Hennepin Community College (0.36/1k); Minnesota State Community and Technical College (2.30/1k); Lake Superior College (0.00/1k); St Cloud Technical and Community College (0.50/1k); Riverland Community College (1.52/1k).
Does Central Lakes College-Brainerd have fire safety data?
Yes. Central Lakes College-Brainerd reports fire safety data for on-campus residential facilities, including total fires, injuries, deaths, and fire damage categories. No fires were reported in the most recent year.
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