Crime in DeForest, Wisconsin
Major crime in DeForest is 77% below the U.S. rate per resident: 84% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
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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Every crime type in DeForest is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in DeForest for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
How crime varies across DeForest
The middle half of DeForest residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 22; the typical (median) resident's is 22.
- 0–50100.0%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.0%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across Wisconsin it fell 11.2%
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.
DeForest against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
2,083 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than DeForest; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
DeForest has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Windsor (2 mi), is 1.6 times DeForest's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in DeForest
What are the most common crimes in DeForest?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 32 a year), shoplifting (about 6 a year) and aggravated assault (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 34% below 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. DeForest's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- DeForest's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 13,804. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in DeForest, Wisconsin." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wi/deforest
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Windsor2 mi39
- Sun Prairie7 mi57
- Middleton12 mi42
- Madison12 mi123
- Cottage Grove12 mi26
- Monona13 mi94
- Columbus16 mi31
- McFarland16 mi34