Marshfield, WI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 39% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Marshfield, WI shows violent crime at 214.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,114.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 39% 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
214.3/100K violent
1114.1/100K property
-39% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Marshfield, WI
Comparable rate records
Marshfield's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Wisconsin cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Marshfield's 214.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Two Rivers (215.5), Horicon (212.3), Shawano (216.5), Chippewa Falls (218.8). 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
Marshfield reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Wisconsin cities
At 214.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Marshfield ranks 53 of 222 — above 169 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +100.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 179.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 214.3 in 2024 (+19.5%). The highest observed value was 381.5 in 2021 and the lowest 179.3 in 2020. 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 16.1% of the 248 Part I offenses reported in Marshfield for 2024, against a median of 12.0% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 4.1 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 Marshfield'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.
Marshfield's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 13.8 Census sq mi, Marshfield logged 15.1 property and 2.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Marshfield's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 248 offenses; mix index 6,321).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.8 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
-27.1%
293.9 → 214.3/100K
Property Crime Rate
-6.9%
1196.8 → 1114.1/100K
Property offenses lead Marshfield's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
208
1114.1
1711
Larceny-Theft
195
1044.5
-
Burglary
8
42.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
5
26.8
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
40
214.3
352
Aggravated Assault
20
107.1
-
Rape
19
101.8
-
Murder
1
5.4
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Marshfield Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Marshfield 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
Marshfield Police Department
Reporting agency for Marshfield NIBRS-participating
Marshfield Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Marshfield's 248 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 Marshfield in population. Their populations run from 17,622 to 19,068, against 18,669 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Marshfield reported 40 violent crimes and 208 property crimes, for a total of 248 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Marshfield?
From 2023 to 2024, Marshfield's violent crime rate decreased by 27.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 6.9%.
What is the most common crime in Marshfield?
The most common crime type in Marshfield is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.6% of all reported crimes (195 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Marshfield 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 Marshfield, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.