Oshkosh, WI has a B safety grade (64/100) with a violent crime rate of 232 per 100,000, 34% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Oshkosh, WI Crime Rate & Safety
At 65,994 residents, Oshkosh is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against WI and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Oshkosh, WI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 34% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oshkosh, WI shows violent crime at 231.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,451.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 34% 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
231.8/100K violent
1451.6/100K property
-34% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Oshkosh, WI
Comparable rate records
Oshkosh's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Wisconsin cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oshkosh's 231.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Grand Chute (233.6), Ladysmith (229.8), Ashwaubenon (235.4), Poynette (235.8). 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
Oshkosh reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Wisconsin cities
At 231.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oshkosh ranks 44 of 222 — above 178 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +116.6% 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 lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 281.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 231.8 in 2024 (-17.7%). The highest observed value was 342.7 in 2022 and the lowest 231.8 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Oshkosh'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Oshkosh's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 27.5 Census sq mi, Oshkosh logged 34.8 property and 5.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oshkosh's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (73% of 1,111 offenses; mix index 5,493).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (27.5 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
-11.5%
1640 → 1451.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-9.6%
256.3 → 231.8/100K
Property offenses lead Oshkosh's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WI
vs US avg
Property Crime
958
1451.6
1156.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
807
1222.8
-
-
Burglary
101
153
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
50
75.8
-
-
Arson
1
1.5
-
-
Violent Crime
153
231.8
279.6
352
Aggravated Assault
116
175.8
-
-
Rape
23
34.9
-
-
Robbery
10
15.2
-
-
Murder
4
6.1
-
-
Oshkosh Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Oshkosh 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
Oshkosh Police Department
Reporting agency for Oshkosh NIBRS-participating
Oshkosh Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oshkosh's 1,111 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 Oshkosh in population. Their populations run from 49,610 to 76,243, against 65,994 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Oshkosh reported 153 violent crimes and 958 property crimes, for a total of 1,111 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Oshkosh?
From 2023 to 2024, Oshkosh's violent crime rate decreased by 9.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.5%.
What is the most common crime in Oshkosh?
The most common crime type in Oshkosh is larceny-theft, accounting for 72.6% of all reported crimes (807 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Oshkosh's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oshkosh, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.