Guest, Sign inJoin

Post to Cashton

We’ll email a one-tap link to publish your post. No password, and nothing is public until you click it.
Already a member? Sign in
Albert and Theresa Marx HouseAlbert and Theresa Marx House · Photo: Jeff the quiet · CC0
Safety in Cashton · Not graded

What the figures say about crime in Cashton, WI

The FBI holds no crime figures for Cashton alone for 2023–2025, so it can’t be graded. Viroqua, 13 miles away, is the nearest town with a Safety Grade (B−). Within a 25-mile drive lie 6 towns that have a grade.

Violent crimes
1
reported to the FBI, 2022
Property crimes
6
reported to the FBI, 2022
Nearest graded town
13 mi
Viroqua (B−)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 5 property crimes reported

Property crime (5.2)Violent crime (0.9)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Cashton0.9
Rest of WI4.0
U.S. (FBI)4.0

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2022

Cashton5.2
Rest of WI18.2
U.S. (FBI)20.0

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.

By year

The years Cashton’s police reported

Show as a table
YearCashtonRest of WisconsinCashtonRest of Wisconsin
20225.218.20.94.0
2023not reported16.0not reported3.9
2024not reported15.4not reported3.8
2025not reported13.5not reported3.2

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.

What gets reported

7 crimes reported in 2022

2022 offenses reported

Larceny / theft6
Burglary0
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault1
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
1
violent crimes
6
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

1 violent and 6 property, as reported to the FBI by Cashton’s police.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Wisconsin towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
ViroquaB−13 mi1.713.2
SpartaC−14 mi3.524.6
West SalemB19 mi1.58.6
TomahC22 mi3.517.2
La CrosseD23 mi3.633.1
OnalaskaC+23 mi0.622.4

Straight-line distance from the center of Cashton. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Cashton.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Cashton’s roads in 2019–2023

That is about what 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 Cashton’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Cashton’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
per 100,000 a year · Wisconsin towns of 2,500–5,000: 6.8

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.

Next door

Cashton and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

How to read these numbers

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 Cashton. 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 Cashton’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,150 in 2022); our figure for Cashton is 1,174 (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 Cashton

Is Cashton, WI safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Cashton. Cashton 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 Viroqua (B−, 13 mi), Sparta (C−, 14 mi), West Salem (B, 19 mi).

Who polices Cashton?

Cashton’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Cashton”. Its figures are the ones on this page.

Heads-up board

Town Square →
Weigh in
Does Cashton feel safe walking around at night?

Your answer becomes a post in Town Square.

Post a heads-up

Please don’t name or describe individuals. In an emergency, call 911.

Neighbors looking out for each other in Cashton.

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.