County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
At 70,377 residents, Portage 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
Portage County, WI reported 65 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Portage County, WI agencies reported 46 violent and 76 property offenses. That equals about 65 violent and 108 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 42.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 65.4 in 2024 (+53.3%). The highest observed value was 66.8 in 2022 and the lowest 31.3 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 37.7% of the 122 Part I offenses reported in Portage County for 2024, against a median of 19.6% across comparable Wisconsin counties — a gap of 18.1 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 65.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Portage County ranks 20 of 64 — above 44 of the 63 other Wisconsin counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +34.7% 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.
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.
| Category | Count |
|---|---|
| Property Crime | 76 |
| Burglary | 17 |
| Larceny-Theft | 53 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 |
| Arson | 2 |
| Violent Crime | 46 |
| Murder | 0 |
| Rape | 9 |
| Robbery | 0 |
| Aggravated Assault | 37 |
Portage County's crime figures on this page originate from Portage 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 Portage County in population. Their populations run from 58,490 to 81,359, against 70,377 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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