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Safety in Eagle River · Not graded

Crime reported in Eagle River, WI

Eagle River’s police reported to the FBI for 2024 but not 2023 or 2025, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. Rhinelander, 22 miles away, is the nearest town with a Safety Grade (B−).

Violent crimes
1
reported to the FBI, 2024
Property crimes
29
reported to the FBI, 2024
Nearest graded town
22 mi
Rhinelander (B−)
1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 18 property crimes reported

Property crime (18)Violent crime (0.6)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2024

Eagle River0.6
Rest of WI3.8
U.S. (FBI)3.6

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2024

Eagle River18.0
Rest of WI15.4
U.S. (FBI)17.7

Crimes reported to police in 2024 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

And about 1 violent crime, in 2024. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

By year

The years Eagle River’s police reported

Show as a table
YearEagle RiverRest of WisconsinEagle RiverRest of Wisconsin
2022not reported18.2not reported4.0
2023not reported16.0not reported3.9
202418.015.40.63.8
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

30 crimes reported in 2024

2024 offenses reported

Larceny / theft29
Burglary0
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault1
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
1
violent crimes
29
property crimes

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

1 violent and 29 property, as reported to the FBI by Eagle River’s police.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Wisconsin towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
RhinelanderB−22 mi1.014.5
MinocquaB−31 mi0.916.0
AntigoB−54 mi1.511.7
MerrillC56 mi2.022.7
PhillipsC58 mi4.67.3
NiagaraA61 mi1.31.7

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

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

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Eagle River’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 Eagle River’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Eagle River’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

Eagle River and its neighbors

Lincoln: not gradedLincolnEagle River
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Lincoln———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Lincoln has no FBI figures of its own for 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 Eagle River. 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 Eagle River’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,612 in 2024); our figure for Eagle River is 1,715 (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 Eagle River

Is Eagle River, WI safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Eagle River. The nearest Wisconsin towns with a grade are Rhinelander (B−, 22 mi), Minocqua (B−, 31 mi), Antigo (B−, 54 mi).

Who polices Eagle River?

Eagle River’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Eagle River”. 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, 2024, 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.