Fond du Lac, WI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 10% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fond du Lac, WI shows violent crime at 387.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,103.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% above 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.
C safety grade
387.2/100K violent
2103.5/100K property
+10% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Fond du Lac, WI
Position in the state cohort
Fond du Lac reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Wisconsin cities
At 387.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fond du Lac ranks 13 of 222 — above 209 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +261.7% 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
Fond du Lac's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Wisconsin cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fond du Lac's 387.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are La Crosse (391.0), Racine (383.0), Beloit (391.9), Stanley (395.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 309.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 387.2 in 2024 (+25.1%). The highest observed value was 387.2 in 2024 and the lowest 289.4 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 15.5% of the 1,100 Part I offenses reported in Fond du Lac for 2024, against a median of 12.0% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 3.5 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 Fond du Lac'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.
Fond du Lac's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 19.2 Census sq mi, Fond du Lac logged 48.3 property and 8.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fond du Lac's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 1,100 offenses; mix index 6,314).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (19.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+32.3%
1589.7 → 2103.5/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+11.7%
346.5 → 387.2/100K
Property offenses lead Fond du Lac's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WI
Property Crime
929
2103.5
1156.8
Larceny-Theft
863
1954.1
-
Burglary
41
92.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
25
56.6
-
Arson
3
6.8
-
Violent Crime
171
387.2
279.6
Aggravated Assault
126
285.3
-
Rape
30
67.9
-
Robbery
13
29.4
-
Murder
2
4.5
-
Fond du Lac Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Fond du Lac property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Fond du Lac Police Department
Reporting agency for Fond du Lac NIBRS-participating
Fond du Lac Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fond du Lac's 1,100 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Wisconsin
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Wisconsin cities closest to Fond du Lac in population. Their populations run from 37,665 to 49,610, against 44,164 here. Or use our
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Fond du Lac at 387.2/100K violent and 2,103.5/100K property - matched below outside Wisconsin (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Fond du Lac reported 171 violent crimes and 929 property crimes, for a total of 1,100 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Fond du Lac?
From 2023 to 2024, Fond du Lac's violent crime rate increased by 11.7%, and the property crime rate increased by 32.3%.
What is the most common crime in Fond du Lac?
The most common crime type in Fond du Lac is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.5% of all reported crimes (863 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fond du Lac 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 Fond du Lac, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.