Deforest, WI has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 80 per 100,000, 77% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Deforest (11,195 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
Deforest, WI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 77% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Deforest, WI shows violent crime at 80.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 812.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 77% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Deforest reported 9 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 11,195. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Deforest's 80.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Portage (80.2), Spooner (81.1), Grafton (78.2), Greendale (83.0). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 100.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 80.4 in 2024 (-20.3%). The highest observed value was 229.1 in 2023 and the lowest 73.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 80.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Deforest ranks 134 of 222 — above 88 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -25.6% against the cohort median of 108.1. 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 are 9.0% of the 100 Part I offenses reported in Deforest for 2024, against a median of 12.1% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 3.1 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 Deforest'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.
Based on 9 reported violent incidents in a population of 11,195. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 9.4 Census sq mi, Deforest logged 9.7 property and 1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Deforest's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 100 offenses; mix index 7,316).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Deforest offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.4 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 | 91 | 812.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 85 | 759.3 |
| Burglary | 5 | 44.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 8.9 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 9 | 80.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 8 | 71.5 |
| Rape | 1 | 8.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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 | 10,901 | 100.9 | 1357.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 11,130 | 116.8 | 1931.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,869 | 73.6 | 1168.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,914 | 229.1 | 797.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 11,195 | 80.4 | 812.9 |
Deforest Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Deforest's 100 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 Deforest in population. Their populations run from 10,873 to 11,889, against 11,195 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Deforest sits at 80.4/100K violent (grade A); the Wisconsin cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Deforest at 80.4/100K violent and 812.9/100K property - matched below outside Wisconsin (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
80.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
812.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Deforest reported 9 violent crimes and 91 property crimes, for a total of 100 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Deforest's violent crime rate decreased by 64.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 2%.
The most common crime type in Deforest is larceny-theft, accounting for 85.0% of all reported crimes (85 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Deforest 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 Deforest's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Deforest, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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