County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led

Chippewa County, WI

At 66,297 residents, Chippewa County is a large county in Wisconsin. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).

Data updated 2026-09-05

124
Property offenses
52
Violent offenses
176
Total · 2024

Chippewa County, WI reported 78 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024

According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chippewa County, WI agencies reported 52 violent and 124 property offenses. That equals about 78 violent and 187 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
  • 52 violent offenses
  • 78/100K violent rate

What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Chippewa County, WI

Position in the state cohort

Chippewa County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Wisconsin counties

At 78.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chippewa County ranks 15 of 64 — above 49 of the 63 other Wisconsin counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +61.7% 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 higher

Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 60.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 78.4 in 2024 (+30.0%). The highest observed value was 78.4 in 2024 and the lowest 48.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.

Offense mix

Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix

Violent offenses are 29.5% of the 176 Part I offenses reported in Chippewa County for 2024, against a median of 19.6% across comparable Wisconsin counties — a gap of 10.0 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.

On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.

Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county

Category Count
Property Crime 124
Burglary 23
Larceny-Theft 90
Motor Vehicle Theft 11
Arson 2
Violent Crime 52
Murder 0
Rape 19
Robbery 1
Aggravated Assault 32

Reporting Agency

Chippewa County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating

Chippewa County's crime figures on this page originate from Chippewa 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

A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Wisconsin counties closest to Chippewa County in population. Their populations run from 52,442 to 74,207, against 66,297 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.

Nationwide peers for Chippewa County

Similar violent rate (~78/100K)

Similar property rate (~187/100K)

ZIP Codes in Chippewa County

State atlas: Wisconsin · Compare · Rankings

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.

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