Crime in Whitewater, Wisconsin
Major crime in Whitewater is 42% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 52% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 6.7% 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 and rape / sexual assault stand out most, at about 46% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Whitewater 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 Whitewater
The middle half of Whitewater residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 17 and 78; the typical (median) resident's is 52.
- 0–5049.2%
- 50–10038.2%
- 100–2008.9%
- 200–4003.7%
- 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 6.7% 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.
Whitewater against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,324 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Whitewater; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Whitewater 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, Fort Atkinson (8 mi), is 35% below Whitewater's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Whitewater
What are the most common crimes in Whitewater?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 46 a year), aggravated assault (about 42 a year) and shoplifting (about 39 a year). Compared with the U.S., drugs and alcohol stands out most: 46% 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. Whitewater's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Whitewater 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: 16,425. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Whitewater, Wisconsin." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/wi/whitewater
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Fort Atkinson8 mi38
- Jefferson12 mi91
- Delavan15 mi50
- Elkhorn15 mi56
- East Troy17 mi23
- Janesville17 mi74
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- Lake Mills18 mi30