Chippewa Falls, WI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 38% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chippewa Falls, WI shows violent crime at 218.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 670 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 38% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
218.8/100K violent
670/100K property
-38% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Chippewa Falls, WI
Comparable rate records
Chippewa Falls's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Wisconsin cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Chippewa Falls's 218.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Superior (220.4), Shawano (216.5), Two Rivers (215.5), Marshfield (214.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 152.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 218.8 in 2024 (+43.6%). The highest observed value was 283.2 in 2022 and the lowest 152.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Chippewa Falls reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Wisconsin cities
At 218.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chippewa Falls ranks 50 of 222 — above 172 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +104.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 24.6% of the 130 Part I offenses reported in Chippewa Falls for 2024, against a median of 12.0% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 12.6 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property counts dominate Chippewa Falls'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.
Chippewa Falls's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.4 Census sq mi, Chippewa Falls logged 8.6 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Chippewa Falls's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 130 offenses; mix index 4,599).
Violent offenses are 25% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-16%
260.4 → 218.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+12.4%
596.1 → 670/100K
Property offenses lead Chippewa Falls's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
98
670
1711
Larceny-Theft
84
574.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
8
54.7
-
Burglary
6
41
-
Arson
1
6.8
-
Violent Crime
32
218.8
352
Aggravated Assault
24
164.1
-
Rape
6
41
-
Robbery
2
13.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Chippewa Falls Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Chippewa Falls property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Chippewa Falls Police Department
Reporting agency for Chippewa Falls NIBRS-participating
Chippewa Falls Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Chippewa Falls's 130 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Wisconsin
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In 2024, Chippewa Falls reported 32 violent crimes and 98 property crimes, for a total of 130 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Chippewa Falls?
From 2023 to 2024, Chippewa Falls's violent crime rate decreased by 16%, and the property crime rate increased by 12.4%.
What is the most common crime in Chippewa Falls?
The most common crime type in Chippewa Falls is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.6% of all reported crimes (84 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Chippewa Falls 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Chippewa Falls, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.