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Wisconsin Cities With The Highest Violent-Crime Pressure

Decision-support ranking comparing Wisconsin cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.

Cities ranked
74
Supported Wisconsin cities with tract-backed crime context.
Leaderboard

Current order from the latest data

Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.

#PlaceMetric
1 Milwaukee
Violent Crime has declined 10% since 2021.
12.9 / 1k
2 Wisconsin Rapids
Violent Crime has increased 17% since 2022.
5.5 / 1k
3 Green Bay
Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2021.
4.7 / 1k
4 La Crosse
Violent Crime has increased 33% since 2021.
4.0 / 1k
5 Racine
Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021.
3.9 / 1k
6 Sheboygan
Violent Crime has been relatively flat over the tracked period.
3.9 / 1k
7 Tomah
Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend.
3.7 / 1k
8 Fond Du Lac
Violent Crime has increased 9% since 2021.
3.7 / 1k
9 Beloit
Violent Crime has declined 39% since 2021.
3.6 / 1k
10 Superior
Violent Crime has increased 3% since 2021.
3.3 / 1k
11 Wausau
Violent Crime has declined 31% since 2021.
3.3 / 1k
12 Kenosha
Violent Crime has declined 14% since 2021.
3.0 / 1k
13 Oshkosh
Violent Crime has declined 26% since 2021.
2.9 / 1k
14 Pleasant Prairie
Violent Crime has increased 56% since 2021.
2.8 / 1k
15 West Bend
Violent Crime has increased 69% since 2021.
2.7 / 1k
16 West Allis
Violent Crime has declined 13% since 2021.
2.6 / 1k
17 Watertown
Violent Crime has declined 19% since 2022.
2.5 / 1k
18 Madison
Violent Crime has declined 23% since 2021.
2.4 / 1k
19 Wauwatosa
Violent Crime has increased 47% since 2021.
2.2 / 1k
20 Neenah
Violent Crime has declined 30% since 2021.
2.1 / 1k
21 Stoughton
Violent Crime has increased 75% since 2021.
2.1 / 1k
22 Appleton
Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021.
2.1 / 1k
23 Chippewa Falls
Violent Crime has declined 23% since 2021.
2.0 / 1k
24 Eau Claire
Violent Crime has declined 9% since 2021.
2.0 / 1k
25 Marinette
Violent Crime has declined 46% since 2021.
2.0 / 1k
Research notes

How to read this ranking

Research note

What this ranking means

This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Wisconsin cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.

Research note

What this ranking can miss

A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.