Delavan Town, WI has a A safety grade (89/100) with a violent crime rate of 38 per 100,000, 89% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Delavan Town is a small municipal reporter (5,298 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with WI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Delavan Town, WI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 89% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Delavan Town, WI shows violent crime at 37.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 811.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 89% 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
Delavan Town reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,298. 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 Delavan Town's 37.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Geneva Town (36.7), Onalaska (36.7), Port Washington (38.8), Pewaukee Village (36.7). 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 53.5% of reported property offenses in Delavan Town, against a cohort median of 88.4%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 37.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Delavan Town ranks 178 of 222 — above 44 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -65.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 56.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 37.8 in 2024 (-32.8%). The highest observed value was 56.2 in 2020 and the lowest 18.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 4.4% of the 45 Part I offenses reported in Delavan Town for 2024, against a median of 12.1% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 7.6 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 Delavan Town'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 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,298. 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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Delavan Town's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (51% of 45 offenses; mix index 4,598).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Delavan Town offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 43 | 811.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 23 | 434.1 |
| Burglary | 20 | 377.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 2 | 37.8 |
| Rape | 1 | 18.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 18.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,337 | 56.2 | 449.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,361 | 18.7 | 391.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,347 | 56.1 | 224.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,270 | 38 | 474.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,298 | 37.8 | 811.6 |
Delavan Town Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Delavan Town's 45 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 Delavan Town in population. Their populations run from 5,120 to 5,451, against 5,298 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Delavan Town sits at 37.8/100K violent (grade A); the Wisconsin cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Delavan Town reported 2 violent crimes and 43 property crimes, for a total of 45 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Delavan Town's violent crime rate decreased by 0.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 71.1%.
The most common crime type in Delavan Town is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.1% of all reported crimes (23 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Delavan Town is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Delavan Town's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Delavan Town, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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