Crime in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin
Major crime in Fort Atkinson is 62% below the U.S. rate per resident: 38% lower for persons crimes and 68% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.0% 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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Drugs and alcohol stands out most, at 2.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Fort Atkinson for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Fort Atkinson
The middle half of Fort Atkinson residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 33; the typical (median) resident's is 29. The citywide figure (38) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5076.2%
- 50–10020.1%
- 100–2003.7%
- 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 Friday and Saturday nights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.0% 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.
Fort Atkinson against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,800 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Fort Atkinson; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Fort Atkinson has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Jefferson (5 mi), is 2.4 times Fort Atkinson's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Fort Atkinson
What are the most common crimes in Fort Atkinson?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 31 a year), aggravated assault (about 21 a year) and shoplifting (about 11 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 2.9 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. Fort Atkinson's figures add up its 11 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Fort Atkinson 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: 13,107. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wi/fort-atkinson
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Jefferson5 mi91
- Whitewater8 mi58
- Lake Mills10 mi30
- Janesville19 mi74
- Stoughton19 mi43
- Watertown19 mi42
- Summit21 mi38
- Cottage Grove21 mi26