County crime profile · 2024 · mid-size county · property-led
Burnett County, WI
Burnett County (16,526 people) sits in the mid-size county band in Wisconsin. This page opens with reported offense counts, then rates where a Census join exists.
Burnett County, WI reported 200 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Burnett County, WI agencies reported 33 violent and 183 property offenses. That equals about 200 violent and 1107 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
33 violent offenses
200/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Burnett County, WI
Position in the state cohort
Burnett County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Wisconsin counties
At 199.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Burnett County ranks 3 of 64 — above 61 of the 63 other Wisconsin counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +311.6% against the cohort median of 48.5. Counties 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 272.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 199.7 in 2024 (-26.7%). The highest observed value was 272.3 in 2020 and the lowest 127.1 in 2021. 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 60.7% of reported property offenses in Burnett County, against a cohort median of 73.9%. The remainder is burglary (62) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 15.3% of the 216 Part I offenses reported in Burnett County for 2024, against a median of 19.7% across comparable Wisconsin counties — a gap of 4.4 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.
Mid-size county rows still aggregate voluntary UCR submissions. Per-100,000 rates need a matched 2020 Census population; unmatched stay count-only. County-wide totals rarely describe any single town inside the line.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · mid-size county
Category
Count
Property Crime
183
Burglary
62
Larceny-Theft
111
Motor Vehicle Theft
10
Arson
2
Violent Crime
33
Murder
1
Rape
6
Robbery
2
Aggravated Assault
24
Reporting Agency
Burnett County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Burnett County's crime figures on this page originate from Burnett County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Wisconsin
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.
County Table 10 totals are voluntary agency filings: incomplete coverage is not a county crime measure, and a countywide figure is not a neighbourhood verdict.