West Allis, WI has a C safety grade (57/100) with a violent crime rate of 257 per 100,000, 27% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
West Allis, WI Crime Rate & Safety
At 58,862 residents, West Allis 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.
West Allis, WI carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 27% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, West Allis, WI shows violent crime at 256.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,977.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 27% 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
256.5/100K violent
1977.5/100K property
-27% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for West Allis, WI
Comparable rate records
West Allis's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Wisconsin cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to West Allis's 256.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Madison (256.0), Park Falls (254.5), 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
West Allis reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Wisconsin cities
At 256.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, West Allis ranks 32 of 222 — above 190 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +139.6% 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 332.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 256.5 in 2024 (-22.9%). The highest observed value was 332.9 in 2020 and the lowest 256.5 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 74.7% of reported property offenses in West Allis, against a cohort median of 88.4%. The remainder is burglary (112) and motor vehicle theft (182). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate West Allis'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.
West Allis's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 11.4 Census sq mi, West Allis logged 102.3 property and 13.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
West Allis's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 1,315 offenses; mix index 4,704).
Violent offenses are only 11% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-15.2%
302.5 → 256.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
-17.1%
2386.1 → 1977.5/100K
Property offenses lead West Allis's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs WI
Property Crime
1,164
1977.5
1156.8
Larceny-Theft
870
1478
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
182
309.2
-
Burglary
112
190.3
-
Arson
6
10.2
-
Violent Crime
151
256.5
279.6
Aggravated Assault
93
158
-
Robbery
44
74.8
-
Rape
14
23.8
-
Murder
0
0
-
West Allis Crime Trend (2020-2024)
West Allis 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
West Allis Police Department
Reporting agency for West Allis NIBRS-participating
West Allis Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind West Allis's 1,315 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
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West Allis at 256.5/100K violent and 1,977.5/100K property - matched below outside Wisconsin (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, West Allis reported 151 violent crimes and 1,164 property crimes, for a total of 1,315 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in West Allis?
From 2023 to 2024, West Allis's violent crime rate decreased by 15.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 17.1%.
What is the most common crime in West Allis?
The most common crime type in West Allis is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.2% of all reported crimes (870 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: West Allis'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 West Allis, WI rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.