Crime rate & statistics
Milwaukee Crime Rate & Safety Statistics
How Milwaukee stacks up on violent and property crime, and what the raw rates mean for an average resident.
Key indices
Milwaukee crime at a glance
Index values are scaled so that 100 equals the U.S. average.
Your odds
Estimated victimization risk
Calibrated against national benchmark rates and expressed as everyday odds.
Trend
Is crime rising or falling in Milwaukee?
Reported incidents per month over the most recent year of data.
Context
How to read these numbers
Milwaukee's violent crime rate sits well above the national average, a pattern shaped heavily by gun violence and concentrated in a handful of north and near-south side neighborhoods. Property crime, especially auto theft, has surged in recent years and touches a far wider swath of the city, including areas that residents otherwise consider quiet.
We convert Milwaukee's crime indices into estimated rates per 100,000 residents using national benchmark rates, then restate them as plain odds — for instance, an estimated “1 in N” chance over a year. Indices are scaled so that 100 represents the national average, and letter grades place each area on an A-to-F curve calibrated across U.S. cities so a grade here means the same thing it would anywhere else.