Crime in Janesville, Wisconsin
Major crime in Janesville is 26% below the U.S. rate per resident: 62% lower for persons crimes and 18% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 22.2% 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 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Janesville 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 Janesville
The middle half of Janesville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 62; the typical (median) resident's is 39. The citywide figure (74) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5061.4%
- 50–10025.5%
- 100–2003.4%
- 200–4006.5%
- 400+3.2%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 22.2% 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.
Janesville against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
355 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Janesville; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Janesville has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Beloit (11 mi), is 18% above Janesville's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Janesville
What are the most common crimes in Janesville?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 391 a year), other larceny (about 266 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 70 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 1.9 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. Janesville's figures add up its 51 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Janesville has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 3.7% 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: 69,740. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Janesville, Wisconsin." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wi/janesville
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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