Tomah, WI has a C safety grade (50/100) with a violent crime rate of 351 per 100,000, 0% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Tomah is a small municipal reporter (9,414 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with WI and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Tomah, WI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 0% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Tomah, WI shows violent crime at 350.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,699.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 201.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 350.5 in 2024 (+73.8%). The highest observed value was 467.8 in 2023 and the lowest 201.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 350.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Tomah ranks 17 of 222 — above 205 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +227.4% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Tomah's 350.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Brown Deer (348.2), Boscobel (344.7), Waupaca (362.1), Platteville (366.7). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 17.1% of the 193 Part I offenses reported in Tomah for 2024, against a median of 12.0% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 5.1 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.
Property counts dominate Tomah'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.
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 7.9 Census sq mi, Tomah logged 20.3 property and 4.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Tomah's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (75% of 193 offenses; mix index 5,837).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Tomah offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.9 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 | 160 | 1699.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 144 | 1529.6 |
| Burglary | 12 | 127.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 42.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 33 | 350.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 29 | 308.1 |
| Rape | 2 | 21.2 |
| Murder | 1 | 10.6 |
| Robbery | 1 | 10.6 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,418 | 201.7 | 2038.6 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 9,379 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 9,525 | 346.5 | 1406.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,406 | 467.8 | 2211.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,414 | 350.5 | 1699.6 |
Tomah Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Tomah's 193 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Tomah in population. Their populations run from 8,997 to 9,781, against 9,414 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Tomah sits at 350.5/100K violent (grade C); the Wisconsin cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Tomah reported 33 violent crimes and 160 property crimes, for a total of 193 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Tomah's violent crime rate decreased by 25.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 23.1%.
The most common crime type in Tomah is larceny-theft, accounting for 74.6% of all reported crimes (144 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Tomah 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 Tomah's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Tomah, 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. Tomah is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (9,414 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.