Most Dangerous Neighborhoods in Milwaukee (2024)
Milwaukee's open crime data has no reliable neighborhood population figure, so these Milwaukee police districts are ranked by severity-weighted reported incident volume, not a per-person rate. The Milwaukee police districts at the top of this list have the most reported incidents relative to other Milwaukee Milwaukee police districts.
Volume, not a safety rate. Milwaukee police district resident population is not reliably available for a per-100k rate, so no safety grade is published for any zone (see /crime-rate/methodology §6.6). The geographic unit is the Milwaukee police district (a policing boundary, not a resident-population neighborhood). relativeIndex ranks each zone by its VIOLENCE-WEIGHTED reported-incident volume (violent incidents weighted 3x property) against the other Milwaukee zones — it is NOT population-adjusted and must not be read as a safety rate. Offenses are grouped into three coarse buckets (violent / property / other) from their NIBRS offense codes.
Ranked highest reported volume first
Not the same Milwaukee police districts as the safest neighborhoods in milwaukee list.
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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 2024. See the full methodology →