Mineral Point, WI has a A+ safety grade (90/100) with a violent crime rate of 39 per 100,000, 89% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Mineral Point is a small municipal reporter (2,557 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with WI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Mineral Point, 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, Mineral Point, WI shows violent crime at 39.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 664.8 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
Mineral Point reported 1 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,557. 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 Mineral Point's 39.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mequon (39.1), Dodgeville (39.1), Port Washington (38.8), Delavan Town (37.8). 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
At 39.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mineral Point ranks 174 of 222 — above 48 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -63.8% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 5.6% of the 18 Part I offenses reported in Mineral Point for 2024, against a median of 12.1% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 6.5 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 Mineral Point'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 1 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,557. 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.
Across 3.1 Census sq mi, Mineral Point logged 5.4 property and 0.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mineral Point's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (83% of 18 offenses; mix index 7,099).
Violent offenses are only 6% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Mineral Point offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.1 sq mi); 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 | 17 | 664.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 15 | 586.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 78.2 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 1 | 39.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 1 | 39.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,461 | 0 | 1259.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,449 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,566 | 0 | 662.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,564 | 78 | 585 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,557 | 39.1 | 664.8 |
Mineral Point Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mineral Point's 18 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 Mineral Point in population. Their populations run from 2,467 to 2,600, against 2,557 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Mineral Point reported 1 violent crimes and 17 property crimes, for a total of 18 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mineral Point's violent crime rate decreased by 49.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 13.6%.
The most common crime type in Mineral Point is larceny-theft, accounting for 83.3% of all reported crimes (15 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Mineral Point 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 Mineral Point's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mineral Point, 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. Mineral Point is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (2,557 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.