CrimeMetric

Crime in Elkhorn, Wisconsin

Major crime in Elkhorn is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 56% lower for persons crimes and 41% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
56
44% below the U.S. rate
15% below the Wisconsin rate
down 7.5% in a year
Persons crimes
44
56% below the U.S. rate
41% below the Wisconsin rate
down 6.1% in a year
Property crimes
59
41% below the U.S. rate
8% below the Wisconsin rate
down 7.7% in a year
Social disorder
155
1.5 times the U.S. rate
1.7 times the Wisconsin rate
down 7.6% 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 3.9 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Elkhorn 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 Elkhorn

The middle half of Elkhorn residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 42; the typical (median) resident's is 26. The citywide figure (56) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Elkhorn, 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.
  • 0–5076.3%
  • 50–10016.7%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4007.0%
  • 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 Friday and Saturday nights

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

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm58
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am55
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm47
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am65
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.5% in a year; across Wisconsin it fell 11.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.5%WI -11.2%-14.9%WI -12.2%
Persons crimes-6.1%WI -4.5%-2.7%WI -3.3%
Property crimes-7.7%WI -12.8%-17.0%WI -14.5%
Social disorder-7.6%WI -7.5%-11.3%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

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

1,354 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elkhorn; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Darby, PA10,742160
Clute, TX10,744114
Freeport, TX10,70398
Waverly, IA10,73868
Worth, IL10,74060
Elkhorn, WI10,72456

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

Nearby places

Elkhorn has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Delavan Lake (6 mi), is 2.0 times Elkhorn's rate.

Whitewater15 mi58
Elkhorn56
Delavan6 mi50
Burlington13 mi39
Walworth10 mi34
East Troy10 mi23
Bloomfield13 mi21

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

Questions about crime in Elkhorn

What are the most common crimes in Elkhorn?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 65 a year), theft from vehicle (about 9 a year) and aggravated assault (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 3.9 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. Elkhorn's figures add up its 9 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Elkhorn 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: 10,724. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elkhorn, Wisconsin." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wi/elkhorn

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100