Crime in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Major crime in Milwaukee is 1.9 times the U.S. rate per resident: 3.6 times for persons crimes and 1.5 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.8% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 6.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee
The middle half of Milwaukee residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 97 and 243; the typical (median) resident's is 155. The citywide figure (190) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–506.8%
- 50–10021.2%
- 100–20037.4%
- 200–40027.5%
- 400+7.1%
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 9.8% 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.
Milwaukee against U.S. places with 500,000 to 1 million residents
12 of the 25 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Milwaukee; the middle of the group is 190. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Milwaukee has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, West Milwaukee (3 mi), is 6.4 times Milwaukee's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Milwaukee
What are the most common crimes in Milwaukee?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 4,744 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 3,971 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 3,079 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 6.9 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. Milwaukee's figures add up its 567 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Milwaukee's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 38.3% 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: 562,991. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Milwaukee, Wisconsin." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wi/milwaukee
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- West Milwaukee3 mi1209
- Wauwatosa3 mi136
- Shorewood4 mi70
- West Allis5 mi86
- Glendale6 mi215
- Elm Grove6 mi31
- Greenfield7 mi128
- St. Francis7 mi49