Park Falls, WI has a B safety grade (66/100) with a violent crime rate of 255 per 100,000, 28% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small municipal
Park Falls's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,358). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to WI and U.S. averages.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Park Falls, WI carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 28% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Park Falls, WI shows violent crime at 254.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,017.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 28% 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.
Small-count caution
Park Falls reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,358. 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 Park Falls's 254.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Madison (256.0), West Allis (256.5), Jefferson (250.2), Rice Lake (244.5). 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 254.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Park Falls ranks 34 of 222 — above 188 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +137.7% 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
Violent offenses are 20.0% of the 30 Part I offenses reported in Park Falls for 2024, against a median of 12.0% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 8.0 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 Park Falls'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 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,358. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Across 3.8 Census sq mi, Park Falls logged 6.4 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Park Falls's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (67% of 30 offenses; mix index 4,822).
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Park Falls offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 24 | 1017.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 20 | 848.2 |
| Burglary | 2 | 84.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 2 | 84.8 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 254.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 5 | 212 |
| Murder | 1 | 42.4 |
| 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 | 2,207 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,168 | 46.1 | 507.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,379 | 294.2 | 630.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,387 | 251.4 | 754.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,358 | 254.5 | 1017.8 |
Park Falls Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Park Falls's 30 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 Park Falls in population. Their populations run from 2,223 to 2,497, against 2,358 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Park Falls sits at 254.5/100K violent (grade B); the Wisconsin cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Park Falls reported 6 violent crimes and 24 property crimes, for a total of 30 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Park Falls's violent crime rate increased by 1.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 35%.
The most common crime type in Park Falls is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.7% of all reported crimes (20 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Park Falls's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Park Falls's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Park Falls, 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. Park Falls is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,358 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.