Brown Deer, WI has a C safety grade (42/100) with a violent crime rate of 348 per 100,000, 1% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Brown Deer (12,636 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then WI and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Brown Deer, WI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 1% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Brown Deer, WI shows violent crime at 348.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,611.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 348.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Brown Deer ranks 18 of 222 — above 204 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +225.3% against the cohort median of 107.1. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Brown Deer's 348.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Tomah (350.5), Boscobel (344.7), Waupaca (362.1), Phillips (330.5). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 77.3% of reported property offenses in Brown Deer, against a cohort median of 88.4%. The remainder is burglary (49) and motor vehicle theft (26). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 398.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 348.2 in 2024 (-12.5%). The highest observed value was 454.9 in 2021 and the lowest 280.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Brown Deer's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 4.4 Census sq mi, Brown Deer logged 75.1 property and 10 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Brown Deer's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 374 offenses; mix index 4,947).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Brown Deer offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 330 | 2611.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 255 | 2018 |
| Burglary | 49 | 387.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 26 | 205.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 44 | 348.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 32 | 253.2 |
| Robbery | 7 | 55.4 |
| Rape | 5 | 39.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 11,808 | 398 | 3785.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 12,310 | 454.9 | 5564.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,817 | 280.9 | 5133.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,661 | 402.8 | 5086.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,636 | 348.2 | 2611.6 |
Brown Deer Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Brown Deer's 374 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Wisconsin cities closest to Brown Deer in population. Their populations run from 11,833 to 12,996, against 12,636 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Brown Deer sits at 348.2/100K violent (grade C); the Wisconsin cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Brown Deer at 348.2/100K violent and 2,611.6/100K property - matched below outside Wisconsin (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
348.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,611.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Brown Deer reported 44 violent crimes and 330 property crimes, for a total of 374 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Brown Deer's violent crime rate decreased by 13.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 48.7%.
The most common crime type in Brown Deer is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.2% of all reported crimes (255 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Brown Deer figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Brown Deer's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Brown Deer, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Brown Deer is scored in the mid-size municipal band (12,636 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.