Fox Valley Metro, WI has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 177 per 100,000, 50% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Fox Valley Metro (23,754 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
Fox Valley Metro, WI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 50% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fox Valley Metro, WI shows violent crime at 176.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 362 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 50% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 70.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 176.8 in 2024 (+151.3%). The highest observed value was 176.8 in 2024 and the lowest 70.4 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 32.8% of the 128 Part I offenses reported in Fox Valley Metro for 2024, against a median of 12.0% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 20.8 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fox Valley Metro's 176.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Menasha (177.7), Ashland (177.9), Ripon (180.9), Marinette (172.4). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 176.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fox Valley Metro ranks 71 of 222 — above 151 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +65.2% 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.
Property counts dominate Fox Valley Metro'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.
Fox Valley Metro's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 128 offenses; mix index 4,273).
Violent offenses are 33% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Fox Valley Metro 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 | 86 | 362 |
| Larceny-Theft | 78 | 328.4 |
| Burglary | 4 | 16.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 16.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.2 |
| Violent Crime | 42 | 176.8 |
| Rape | 22 | 92.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 20 | 84.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 22,737 | 70.4 | 255.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 22,891 | 113.6 | 349.5 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,894 | 75.3 | 246.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,678 | 135.1 | 523.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,754 | 176.8 | 362 |
Fox Valley Metro Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fox Valley Metro's 128 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 Fox Valley Metro in population. Their populations run from 21,981 to 25,586, against 23,754 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Fox Valley Metro sits at 176.8/100K violent (grade A); the Wisconsin cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Fox Valley Metro at 176.8/100K violent and 362/100K property - matched below outside Wisconsin (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
176.8/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
362/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Fox Valley Metro reported 42 violent crimes and 86 property crimes, for a total of 128 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Fox Valley Metro's violent crime rate increased by 30.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 30.9%.
The most common crime type in Fox Valley Metro is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.9% of all reported crimes (78 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fox Valley Metro 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 Fox Valley Metro's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fox Valley Metro, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Fox Valley Metro is scored in the mid-size municipal band (23,754 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.