Wisconsin Rapids, WI has a D safety grade (30/100) with a violent crime rate of 532 per 100,000, 51% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Wisconsin Rapids (18,602 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then WI and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Wisconsin Rapids, WI carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 51% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wisconsin Rapids, WI shows violent crime at 532.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,892.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 165.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 532.2 in 2024 (+221.6%). The highest observed value was 623.8 in 2021 and the lowest 165.5 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 532.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wisconsin Rapids ranks 7 of 222 — above 215 of the 221 other Wisconsin cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +397.1% 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 Wisconsin Rapids's 532.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Green Bay (495.1), Adams (616.2), Sheboygan (427.3), Lancaster (668.2). 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 22.0% of the 451 Part I offenses reported in Wisconsin Rapids for 2024, against a median of 12.0% across comparable Wisconsin cities — a gap of 9.9 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 Wisconsin Rapids'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.
Across 13.9 Census sq mi, Wisconsin Rapids logged 25.3 property and 7.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wisconsin Rapids's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 451 offenses; mix index 4,696).
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Wisconsin Rapids offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (13.9 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 | 352 | 1892.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 298 | 1602 |
| Burglary | 27 | 145.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 27 | 145.1 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 99 | 532.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 65 | 349.4 |
| Rape | 32 | 172 |
| Robbery | 2 | 10.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 17,524 | 165.5 | 2876.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 17,473 | 623.8 | 2272.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 18,693 | 433.3 | 2102.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 18,637 | 504.4 | 2114.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 18,602 | 532.2 | 1892.3 |
Wisconsin Rapids Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wisconsin Rapids's 451 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 Wisconsin Rapids in population. Their populations run from 17,622 to 19,068, against 18,602 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Wisconsin Rapids sits at 532.2/100K violent (grade D); the Wisconsin cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Wisconsin Rapids at 532.2/100K violent and 1,892.3/100K property - matched below outside Wisconsin (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
532.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,892.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Wisconsin Rapids reported 99 violent crimes and 352 property crimes, for a total of 451 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Wisconsin Rapids's violent crime rate increased by 5.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 10.5%.
The most common crime type in Wisconsin Rapids is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.1% of all reported crimes (298 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Wisconsin Rapids 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Wisconsin Rapids's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wisconsin Rapids, 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. Wisconsin Rapids is scored in the mid-size municipal band (18,602 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.