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Safest cities in Wisconsin? Lowest and highest property-crime candidates

Use this hub to compare validated Wisconsin city candidates by reported selected property-offense rate. It is a cautious city-page index, not a statewide safety ranking or personal-risk score.

Candidate-city rate 18.84 per 1,000 residents across listed cities; not a statewide risk score

Validated cities8Current candidate pages

Candidate population70,052Sum of listed city estimates

Selected offenses1,320FBI NIBRS offense records

Highest-rate city candidates

Use the city pages for source notes, trend handling, and offense mix. Small or ambiguous places remain outside automatic publication.

24,425 residents Grand Chute 44.18 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 5,059 residents Minocqua 20.76 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,947 residents Beloit Town 10.70 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 5,217 residents Delavan Town 4.98 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,648 residents Grand Rapids 1.57 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,497 residents Waterford Town 1.23 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

Lowest-rate city candidates

Searchers often ask for the safest cities in a state. This section answers that intent carefully by showing the lowest reported selected property-offense rates among validated city candidates only.

7,807 residents Mukwonago Town 0.13 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 5,452 residents Geneva Town 0.73 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 6,497 residents Waterford Town 1.23 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,648 residents Grand Rapids 1.57 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 5,217 residents Delavan Town 4.98 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents 7,947 residents Beloit Town 10.70 selected property offenses per 1,000 residents

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Wisconsin city candidates

City	Population	Selected offenses	Rate per 1,000	Trend
Grand Chute	24,425	1,079	44.18	Roughly stable
Minocqua	5,059	105	20.76	Increasing
Beloit Town	7,947	85	10.70	Roughly stable
Delavan Town	5,217	26	4.98	Increasing
Grand Rapids	7,648	12	1.57	Decreasing
Waterford Town	6,497	8	1.23	Decreasing
Geneva Town	5,452	4	0.73	Decreasing
Mukwonago Town	7,807	1	0.13	Decreasing

Important context

These figures are based on reported selected property offenses and Census population context for validated city candidates. Agency reporting boundaries can differ from municipal boundaries, so the methodology page explains why ambiguous or tiny-denominator rows stay out of automatic publication.

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