Community and Environmental Health 2015-2018

In 2015, 2.3% of pregnant women experienced intimate partner violence (IPV) during the 12 months before pregnancy and 2.1% experienced IPV during pregnancy (source).

  • Female homicides: In 2017, there were 33 reported cases of female homicide victims (source).
  • Suicide rates: The rate is 6 per 100,000. Females are 1.5 times more likely to die by suicide than homicide in MN (source).
  • Incarceration rates: There are 649 female adults in prison (7% of the total prison population) in MN (January 1, 2019) (source: MN Adult Prison population summary 01/01/2019).

See “About the Data Sources” for more details on how data were collected.