Eau Claire, WI has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 162 per 100,000, 54% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Eau Claire, WI Crime Rate & Safety
At 70,891 residents, Eau Claire is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against WI and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Eau Claire, WI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 54% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Eau Claire, WI shows violent crime at 162.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,905.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 54% 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
162.2/100K violent
1905.7/100K property
-54% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Eau Claire, WI
Comparable rate records
Eau Claire's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Wisconsin cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Eau Claire's 162.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Stevens Point (162.9), South Milwaukee (158.6), Neenah (156.5), Algoma (155.9). 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 277.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 162.2 in 2024 (-41.6%). The highest observed value was 277.9 in 2020 and the lowest 134.6 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Eau Claire sits mid-pack among comparable Wisconsin cities
At 162.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Eau Claire ranks 75 of 222 — above 147 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +51.5% 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
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 7.8% of the 1,466 Part I offenses reported in Eau Claire for 2024, against a median of 12.1% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 4.2 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 Eau Claire'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Eau Claire's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 34.3 Census sq mi, Eau Claire logged 39.4 property and 3.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Eau Claire's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 1,466 offenses; mix index 5,841).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (34.3 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
+20.5%
134.6 → 162.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.1%
2029.8 → 1905.7/100K
Property offenses lead Eau Claire's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WI
Property Crime
1,351
1905.7
1156.8
Larceny-Theft
1,101
1553.1
-
Burglary
179
252.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
71
100.2
-
Arson
3
4.2
-
Violent Crime
115
162.2
279.6
Aggravated Assault
66
93.1
-
Rape
40
56.4
-
Robbery
7
9.9
-
Murder
2
2.8
-
Eau Claire Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Eau Claire 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
Eau Claire Police Department
Reporting agency for Eau Claire NIBRS-participating
Eau Claire Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Eau Claire's 1,466 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, Eau Claire reported 115 violent crimes and 1,351 property crimes, for a total of 1,466 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Eau Claire?
From 2023 to 2024, Eau Claire's violent crime rate increased by 20.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.1%.
What is the most common crime in Eau Claire?
The most common crime type in Eau Claire is larceny-theft, accounting for 75.1% of all reported crimes (1,101 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Eau Claire's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Eau Claire, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.