Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Chetek: recorded crime, not graded
Chetek’s police reported to the FBI for 2023 but not 2024 or 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The closest graded town is Rice Lake, 13 miles away, at C. Widen the search to 25 miles and 2 graded towns turn up.
For every 1,000 residents, about 3 property crimes reported
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2023
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2023
Crimes reported to police in 2023 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And about 1 violent crime, in 2023. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
The years Chetek’s police reported
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| Year | Chetek | Rest of Wisconsin | Chetek | Rest of Wisconsin |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.1 | 18.2 | 0.5 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.8 | 16.0 | 0.5 | 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.
7 crimes reported in 2023
2023 offenses reported
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 Chetek’s police.
The nearest Wisconsin towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rice Lake | C | 13 mi | 3.6 | 12.6 |
| Bloomer | B | 17 mi | 2.4 | 4.5 |
| Boyceville | B | 27 mi | 1.5 | 8.8 |
| Ladysmith | B+ | 29 mi | 1.4 | 4.6 |
| Chippewa Falls | B | 29 mi | 2.3 | 5.8 |
| Menomonie | B− | 32 mi | 2.0 | 9.3 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Chetek. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Chetek.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
No one died in a crash on Chetek’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 Chetek’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Chetek’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Chetek and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chetek (township) | — | — | — |
| Prairie Lake | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Chetek (township) and Prairie Lake 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 Chetek. 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 Chetek’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,168 in 2023); our figure for Chetek is 2,152 (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 Chetek
Is Chetek, WI safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Chetek. The nearest Wisconsin towns with a grade are Rice Lake (C, 13 mi), Bloomer (B, 17 mi), Boyceville (B, 27 mi).
Who polices Chetek?
Chetek’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Chetek”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Chetek.
Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2023, 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.