CrimeMetric

Crime in Grafton, Wisconsin

Major crime in Grafton is 62% below the U.S. rate per resident: 75% lower for persons crimes and 59% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
38
62% below the U.S. rate
43% below the Wisconsin rate
down 7.4% in a year
Persons crimes
25
75% below the U.S. rate
67% below the Wisconsin rate
down 5.2% in a year
Property crimes
41
59% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Wisconsin rate
down 7.7% in a year
Social disorder
46
54% below the U.S. rate
49% below the Wisconsin rate
down 7.5% 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 12% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Grafton 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 Grafton

The middle half of Grafton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 16 and 56; the typical (median) resident's is 27. The citywide figure (38) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Grafton, 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.
  • 0–5074.7%
  • 50–10012.6%
  • 100–20012.7%
  • 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.

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 6pm47
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am29
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm39
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am28
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.4% in a year; across Wisconsin it fell 11.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.4%WI -11.2%-9.0%WI -12.2%
Persons crimes-5.2%WI -4.5%+4.6%WI -3.3%
Property crimes-7.7%WI -12.8%-10.8%WI -14.5%
Social disorder-7.5%WI -7.5%-6.2%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

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

1,792 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Grafton; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Endicott, NY13,037178
Show Low, AZ13,043154
Mendota, CA13,02282
Monmouth, OR13,03768
Santa Fe, TX13,00440
Grafton, WI13,02738

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

Nearby places

Grafton 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, Cedarburg (2 mi), is 36% below Grafton's rate.

Brown Deer10 mi164
Saukville5 mi95
Germantown11 mi59
Grafton38
Mequon6 mi26
Cedarburg2 mi24
Bayside10 mi24

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

Questions about crime in Grafton

What are the most common crimes in Grafton?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 37 a year), other larceny (about 27 a year) and aggravated assault (about 7 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 12% above 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. Grafton's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Grafton'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: 13,027. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100