Oak Creek, WI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 59% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oak Creek, WI shows violent crime at 146 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,685.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 59% 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
146/100K violent
1685.9/100K property
-59% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Oak Creek, WI
Comparable rate records
Oak Creek's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Wisconsin cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oak Creek's 146.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Beaver Dam (145.7), Hales Corners (146.4), Janesville (143.4), Saukville (140.8). 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
Oak Creek sits mid-pack among comparable Wisconsin cities
At 146.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oak Creek ranks 80 of 222 — above 142 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +36.4% 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 8.0% of the 690 Part I offenses reported in Oak Creek for 2024, against a median of 12.1% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 137.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 146.0 in 2024 (+6.6%). The highest observed value was 173.1 in 2021 and the lowest 137.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Oak Creek'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.
Oak Creek's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 28.4 Census sq mi, Oak Creek logged 22.3 property and 1.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oak Creek's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 690 offenses; mix index 6,633).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (28.4 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
-9.1%
1855.4 → 1685.9/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-2.7%
150 → 146/100K
Property offenses lead Oak Creek's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WI
Property Crime
635
1685.9
1156.8
Larceny-Theft
558
1481.5
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
50
132.7
-
Burglary
27
71.7
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
55
146
279.6
Aggravated Assault
30
79.6
-
Rape
15
39.8
-
Robbery
10
26.5
-
Murder
0
0
-
Oak Creek Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Oak Creek 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
Oak Creek Police Department
Reporting agency for Oak Creek NIBRS-participating
Oak Creek Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oak Creek's 690 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 Oak Creek in population. Their populations run from 34,546 to 40,186, against 37,665 here. Or use our
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Oak Creek at 146/100K violent and 1,685.9/100K property - matched below outside Wisconsin (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Oak Creek reported 55 violent crimes and 635 property crimes, for a total of 690 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Oak Creek?
From 2023 to 2024, Oak Creek's violent crime rate decreased by 2.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 9.1%.
What is the most common crime in Oak Creek?
The most common crime type in Oak Creek is larceny-theft, accounting for 80.9% of all reported crimes (558 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Oak Creek 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 Oak Creek, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.