CrimeMetric

Crime in Lake Mills, Wisconsin

Major crime in Lake Mills is 70% below the U.S. rate per resident: 68% lower for persons crimes and 70% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
30
70% below the U.S. rate
54% below the Wisconsin rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
32
68% below the U.S. rate
58% below the Wisconsin rate
down 5.4% in a year
Property crimes
30
70% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Wisconsin rate
down 8.1% in a year
Social disorder
51
49% below the U.S. rate
43% 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 15% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Lake Mills 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 Lake Mills

The middle half of Lake Mills residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 25 and 34; the typical (median) resident's is 28.

Map of Lake Mills, 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.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 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.

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 6pm38
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am23
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm32
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am22
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Wisconsin it fell 11.2%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%WI -11.2%-8.2%WI -12.2%
Persons crimes-5.4%WI -4.5%+4.8%WI -3.3%
Property crimes-8.1%WI -12.8%-11.3%WI -14.5%
Social disorder-7.5%WI -7.5%-6.0%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

Lake Mills against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,895 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lake Mills; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Herkimer, NY7,458351
Ontario, OH7,445127
Waikele, HI7,454105
Wilton, CA7,45374
Lake Mills, WI7,45030

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

Nearby places

Lake Mills has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Jefferson (7 mi), is 3.0 times Lake Mills's rate.

Jefferson7 mi91
Whitewater18 mi58
Stoughton19 mi43
Watertown12 mi42
Columbus18 mi31
Lake Mills30

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

Questions about crime in Lake Mills

What are the most common crimes in Lake Mills?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 20 a year), aggravated assault (about 5 a year) and shoplifting (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 15% 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. Lake Mills's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Lake Mills 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: 7,450. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lake Mills, Wisconsin." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wi/lake-mills

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100