County crime profile · 2024 · very large county · property-led
At 561,504 residents, Dane County is a very 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
Dane County, WI has incomplete FBI UCR agency reporting for 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, agencies serving Dane County, WI submitted 52 violent and 434 property offenses against a population of 561,504. Participation is voluntary, so incomplete filings are not a county crime measure and no safety grade is assigned from them.
Incomplete FBI reporting for this county
Law-enforcement agencies serving Dane County reported 52 violent and 434 property offences to the FBI for 2024 against a population of 561,504. Reporting to the UCR Program is voluntary, and figures this low for a population this size mean agencies did not submit complete data, not that little crime occurred. The numbers below are what was reported; they are not a measure of this county's crime level, and no safety grade is assigned from them.
Reporting completeness
FBI UCR participation is voluntary, and the 2024 submission covering Dane County does not pass the completeness test this site applies for a population of 561,504. The counts below are shown because they are what agencies reported, but they are not treated here as the county’s crime level, and Dane County is excluded from rankings and comparisons on this site for 2024.
2020–2023 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 21.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 10.3 in 2023 (-51.7%). The highest observed value was 21.4 in 2020 and the lowest 10.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a very 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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 434 |
| Burglary | 60 |
| Larceny-Theft | 337 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 37 |
| Arson | 2 |
| Violent Crime | 52 |
| Murder | 1 |
| Rape | 21 |
| Robbery | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 29 |
Dane County's crime figures on this page originate from Dane 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.
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Wisconsin counties closest to Dane County in population. Their populations run from 190,705 to 939,489, against 561,504 here. Or launch the side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two jurisdictions directly.
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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.
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Put this to use
Use the Dane County, WI FBI UCR county record to open cities inside the county, compare the state file, or look up another place.
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.
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