Black River Falls Public Library · Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Black River Falls has no Safety Grade
For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Sparta (C−), 25 miles away. Without FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, Black River Falls has nothing to grade it on.
For every 1,000 residents, about 26 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022
Crimes reported to police in 2022 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2022. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Black River Falls’ police reported
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| Year | Black River Falls | Rest of Wisconsin | Black River Falls | Rest of Wisconsin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25.5 | 18.2 | 0.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | not reported | 16.0 | not reported | 3.9 |
| 2024 | not reported | 15.4 | not reported | 3.8 |
| 2025 | not reported | 13.5 | not reported | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Wisconsin. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
91 crimes reported in 2022
2022 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
2 violent and 89 property, as reported to the FBI by Black River Falls’ police.
The nearest Wisconsin towns with a Safety Grade
Straight-line distance from the center of Black River Falls. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Black River Falls.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Eight people died in crashes on Black River Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
Black River Falls had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which eight people died. Most of these deaths (4 of 8) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is more than is typical for Wisconsin towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (6.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Black River Falls’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Black River Falls’s own rate (45.1) 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.
Black River Falls and its neighbors
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Adams, Brockway and Albion have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
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 Black River Falls. 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 Black River Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,495 in 2022); our figure for Black River Falls is 3,555 (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 Black River Falls
Is Black River Falls, WI safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Black River Falls. Black River Falls has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Wisconsin towns with a grade are Sparta (C−, 25 mi), Tomah (C, 27 mi), Augusta (B, 30 mi).
Who polices Black River Falls?
Black River Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Black River Falls”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2022, 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.