Poynette, WI has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 236 per 100,000, 33% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Poynette is a small municipal reporter (2,544 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with WI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Poynette, WI carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 33% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Poynette, WI shows violent crime at 235.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 39.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 33% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 85.7% of the 7 Part I offenses reported in Poynette for 2024, against a median of 12.0% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 73.7 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.
Small-count caution
Poynette reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,544. 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 Poynette's 235.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fort Atkinson (236.3), Ashwaubenon (235.4), West Bend (237.9), Grand Chute (233.6). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 159.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 235.8 in 2024 (+47.8%). The highest observed value was 235.8 in 2024 and the lowest 116.3 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 235.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Poynette ranks 41 of 222 — above 181 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +120.3% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 100.0% of reported property offenses in Poynette, against a cohort median of 88.2%. The remainder is burglary (0) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Violent counts are the sharper signal on Poynette's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters 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 2,544. 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 2.6 Census sq mi, Poynette logged 0.4 property and 2.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Poynette's 2024 book concentrates in aggravated assault (57% of 7 offenses; mix index 4,286).
Violent offenses are 86% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small city.
Poynette offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.6 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Violent Crime | 6 | 235.8 |
| Aggravated Assault | 4 | 157.2 |
| Rape | 2 | 78.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
| Property Crime | 1 | 39.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 1 | 39.3 |
| Burglary | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,507 | 159.6 | 79.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 2,506 | 199.5 | 119.7 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,580 | 116.3 | 232.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,562 | 234.2 | 273.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,544 | 235.8 | 39.3 |
Poynette Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Poynette's 7 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 Poynette in population. Their populations run from 2,467 to 2,600, against 2,544 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
In 2024, Poynette reported 6 violent crimes and 1 property crimes, for a total of 7 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Poynette's violent crime rate increased by 0.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 85.6%.
The most common crime type in Poynette is aggravated assault, accounting for 57.1% of all reported crimes (4 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Poynette 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 Poynette's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Poynette, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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