CrimeMetric

Crime in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin

Major crime in Chippewa Falls is 63% below the U.S. rate per resident: 36% lower for persons crimes and 69% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
37
63% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Wisconsin rate
down 7.7% in a year
Persons crimes
65
36% below the U.S. rate
14% below the Wisconsin rate
down 4.5% in a year
Property crimes
31
69% below the U.S. rate
51% below the Wisconsin rate
down 9.0% in a year
Social disorder
110
10% above the U.S. rate
21% above the Wisconsin rate
down 7.2% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

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Crime by type

Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.6 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Chippewa Falls for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Chippewa Falls

The middle half of Chippewa Falls residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 26 and 33; the typical (median) resident's is 28. The citywide figure (37) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Chippewa Falls, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5093.4%
  • 50–1003.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4003.6%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm46
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am31
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm33
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am33
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.7% in a year; across Wisconsin it fell 11.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.7%WI -11.2%-7.8%WI -12.2%
Persons crimes-4.5%WI -4.5%+2.6%WI -3.3%
Property crimes-9.0%WI -12.8%-12.5%WI -14.5%
Social disorder-7.2%WI -7.5%-6.6%WI -8.4%

Change in expected crimes, with Wisconsin as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.

Similar-size places

Chippewa Falls against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

1,805 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Chippewa Falls; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Speedway, IN14,306115
Rio Linda, CA14,275100
Powell, TN14,31961
Natchez, MS14,31851
Chippewa Falls, WI14,30037
Dunmore, PA14,27634

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Chippewa Falls has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lake Hallie (4 mi), is 1.7 times Chippewa Falls's rate.

Altoona10 mi99
Eau Claire10 mi92
Rice Lake42 mi73
Menomonie26 mi63
Chippewa Falls37
Ladysmith39 mi35
Bloomer12 mi34
Barron39 mi33

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Chippewa Falls

What are the most common crimes in Chippewa Falls?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 27 a year), aggravated assault (about 22 a year) and shoplifting (about 18 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.6 times the U.S. rate per resident.

How we calculated this

Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Chippewa Falls's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Chippewa Falls has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
  • Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
  • Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
  • Residents: 14,300. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wi/chippewa-falls

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100