Photo: Amcc0619 · CC BY-SA 4.0On property crime, Chippewa Falls has a lower rate per resident than three in four U.S. towns
The overall Safety Grade is B (#95 of 175 graded towns in Wisconsin), which means close to the middle of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Annual rates stand at 2.3 violent crimes and 5.8 incidents of property crime for every thousand residents, next to 3.6 and 15.0 in the rest of Wisconsin.
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 Chippewa Falls
Among Wisconsin towns, closer to the middle
Wisconsin’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Chippewa Falls’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 46% of the 175 Wisconsin towns we grade, against 59% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Chippewa Falls has 9,802 jobs based in town for 15,293 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 Chippewa Falls’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Property crime holds Chippewa Falls’ grade up; violent crime pulls it down. Its violent rate (2.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) 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
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| Year | Chippewa Falls | Rest of Wisconsin | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2.8 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.6 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 2.2 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.1 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Chippewa Falls’ police reported 102 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 2.3 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.6 in the rest of Wisconsin and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Chippewa Falls per 1,000 residents
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.
And about 2 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Chippewa Falls property | Rest of Wisconsin property | Chippewa Falls violent | Rest of Wisconsin violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 5.3 | 18.2 | 2.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 6.0 | 16.0 | 2.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 6.7 | 15.5 | 2.2 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 4.9 | 13.6 | 2.1 | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
106 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
32 violent and 74 property, as reported to the FBI by Chippewa Falls’ police.
One person died in crashes on Chippewa Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
Chippewa Falls 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 Chippewa Falls’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Chippewa Falls’s own rate (1.4) 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.
Chippewa Falls and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chippewa Falls | B | 2.3 | 5.8 |
| Eagle Point | — | — | — |
| Lake Hallie | — | — | — |
| Wheaton | — | — | — |
| Tilden | — | — | — |
| Lafayette | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Eagle Point, Wheaton, Tilden and Lafayette have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Lake Hallie reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2024 but not 2025.
Wisconsin towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chippewa Falls | B | 2.3 | 5.8 |
| Whitefish Bay | A− | 0.2 | 8.3 |
| Hartford | B | 2.1 | 6.4 |
| Whitewater | B− | 2.6 | 8.0 |
| Hudson | C+ | 1.4 | 16.0 |
| Glendale | D | 2.7 | 40.6 |
The five graded Wisconsin towns closest to Chippewa Falls’ population (15,293), by grade.
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 Chippewa 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 Chippewa Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (15,163 in 2025); our figure for Chippewa Falls is 15,293 (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 Chippewa Falls
Is Chippewa Falls, WI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Chippewa Falls reports less crime per resident than 59% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #95 of 175 in Wisconsin. Its police reported 2.3 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 Chippewa Falls?
2.3 violent and 5.8 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.
Who polices Chippewa Falls?
Chippewa Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Chippewa 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, 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.