Crime Rate in Wisconsin (2025)
The FBI-based Crime Index for 12 cities in Wisconsin, plus the statewide average. Scores run 0–100 (higher = safer) and are built from FBI Crime Data Explorer reports for 2025.
Crime Index
Crime trend in Wisconsin
All 12 cities in Wisconsin
Ranked safest to most dangerous by Crime Index.
- 1WaukeshaB1,027per 100k0.0homicide
- 2AppletonB1,145per 100k0.0homicide
- 3JanesvilleB1,689per 100k6.0homicide
- 4Eau ClaireB1,946per 100k2.7homicide
- 5KenoshaB1,060per 100k1.0homicide
- 6West AllisB1,890per 100k1.7homicide
- 7OshkoshB1,566per 100k1.5homicide
- 8MadisonB2,094per 100k1.7homicide
- 9Green BayC1,633per 100k1.9homicide
- 10RacineC1,766per 100k2.6homicide
- 11La CrosseD3,910per 100k4.0homicide
- 12MilwaukeeF3,546per 100k25.4homicide
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A high Crime Index score means lower reported crime relative to other US cities — it is not a guarantee of safety. Reported crime is not the same as actual crime. Research on the gap between crime that occurs and crime that gets reported to police — often called the "dark figure" of crime — estimates that roughly 40% of violent crime and about a third of property crime go unreported each year. Every index built on official statistics, including this one, necessarily undercounts real crime. That gap is exactly why homicide — the offense with the smallest dark figure — anchors the calculation instead of a more commonly reported but less reliable category like theft.
Scores on this page reflect FBI-reported data for 2025. See the full methodology →