Superior, WI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 37% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Superior, WI shows violent crime at 220.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,204.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 37% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
220.4/100K violent
2204.5/100K property
-37% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Superior, WI
Comparable rate records
Superior's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Wisconsin cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Superior's 220.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chippewa Falls (218.8), North Fond du Lac (223.8), Clinton (224.1), Shawano (216.5). 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
Superior reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Wisconsin cities
At 220.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Superior ranks 49 of 222 — above 173 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +105.9% 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 189.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 220.4 in 2024 (+16.3%). The highest observed value was 220.4 in 2024 and the lowest 189.6 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Superior'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.
Superior's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 36.6 Census sq mi, Superior logged 15.8 property and 1.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Superior's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (76% of 638 offenses; mix index 5,956).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (36.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+3.5%
212.9 → 220.4/100K
Property Crime Rate
+1.2%
2178 → 2204.5/100K
Property offenses lead Superior's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WI
Property Crime
580
2204.5
1156.8
Larceny-Theft
486
1847.2
-
Burglary
49
186.2
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
45
171
-
Arson
1
3.8
-
Violent Crime
58
220.4
279.6
Aggravated Assault
40
152
-
Rape
14
53.2
-
Robbery
3
11.4
-
Murder
1
3.8
-
Superior Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Superior 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
Superior Police Department
Reporting agency for Superior NIBRS-participating
Superior Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Superior's 638 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 Superior in population. Their populations run from 24,397 to 27,731, against 26,310 here. Or use our
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Superior at 220.4/100K violent and 2,204.5/100K property - matched below outside Wisconsin (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Superior reported 58 violent crimes and 580 property crimes, for a total of 638 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Superior?
From 2023 to 2024, Superior's violent crime rate increased by 3.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 1.2%.
What is the most common crime in Superior?
The most common crime type in Superior is larceny-theft, accounting for 76.2% of all reported crimes (486 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Superior 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 Superior, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.