Antigo Post Office · Photo: Jeff the quiet · Public domainAntigo sits close to the middle of U.S. towns for reported crime
Overall, Antigo grades B− for safety (#111 of 175 graded towns in Wisconsin): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported to the FBI in 2023–2025.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of WI” is every other Wisconsin city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Antigo
Among Wisconsin towns, closer to the middle
Wisconsin’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Antigo’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 37% of the 175 Wisconsin towns we grade, against 52% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Antigo has 5,001 jobs based in town for 8,060 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Antigo’s grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Antigo’s grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (11.7) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Antigo’s police reported 35 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.5 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.6 in the rest of Wisconsin and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Antigo | Rest of Wisconsin | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.1 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
For every 1,000 residents, about 12 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
Reported crime is steady
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Wisconsin.
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| Year | Antigo property | Rest of Wisconsin property | Antigo violent | Rest of Wisconsin violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 16.7 | 18.2 | 2.1 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 11.4 | 16.0 | 1.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 12.0 | 15.4 | 2.4 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 11.8 | 13.5 | 0.9 | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
103 crimes reported in 2025
7 violent and 96 property, as reported to the FBI by Antigo’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
One person died in crashes on Antigo’s roads in 2019–2023
Antigo had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is about what is typical for Wisconsin towns of 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (3.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Antigo’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Antigo’s own rate (2.5) is context, not a ranking.
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Antigo and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Antigo | B− | 1.5 | 11.7 |
| Antigo (township) | — | — | — |
| Rolling | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Antigo (township) and Rolling have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Antigo. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Antigo’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,102 in 2025); our figure for Antigo is 8,060 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Antigo
Is Antigo, WI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Antigo reports less crime per resident than 52% of U.S. towns, a B− Safety Grade and #111 of 175 in Wisconsin. Its police reported 1.5 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.6 in the rest of Wisconsin and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Antigo?
1.5 violent and 11.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Wisconsin reports 3.6 and 15.0; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is crime going up or down in Antigo?
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.
Who polices Antigo?
Antigo’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Antigo”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Antigo.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.