Photo: Gkowalski · CC BY-SA 3.0Reported crime per resident in Hales Corners fell 58% from 2023 to 2025
One of the 4 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. Add to that, for every 1,000 residents, 1.1 violent crimes and 7.6 incidents of property crime were logged a year; in the rest of Wisconsin, the figures are 3.6 and 15.0. Hales Corners’s overall Safety Grade is B+ (#73 of 175 graded towns in Wisconsin): less crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025.
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 Hales Corners
1 of the 4 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 4 Wisconsin towns on Hales Corners’ borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: New Berlin (B+), Franklin (B+), Greendale (B), Greenfield (C). Neighbors ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Hales Corners’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Hales Corners property | Rest of Wisconsin property | Hales Corners violent | Rest of Wisconsin violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 8.5 | 18.2 | 0.3 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 12.1 | 16.0 | 1.1 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 6.0 | 15.5 | 1.5 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 4.9 | 13.5 | 0.6 | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Wisconsin.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Hales Corners | Rest of Wisconsin | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.3 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.1 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.5 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Hales Corners’ police reported 24 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.1 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 Hales Corners 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
43 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.
5 violent and 38 property, as reported to the FBI by Hales Corners’ police.
One person died in crashes on Hales Corners’s roads in 2019–2023
Hales Corners had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Hales Corners’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Hales Corners’s own rate (2.6) 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.
Hales Corners and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hales Corners | B+ | 1.1 | 7.6 |
| Greenfield | C | 1.2 | 24.1 |
| Greendale | B | 0.8 | 10.5 |
| Franklin | B+ | 0.5 | 10.6 |
| New Berlin | B+ | 0.5 | 8.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Wisconsin towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hales Corners | B+ | 1.1 | 7.6 |
| Mount Horeb | A+ | 0.6 | 1.4 |
| Grand Rapids | A | 0.7 | 1.8 |
| New London | A | 0.4 | 3.9 |
| Ripon | B+ | 1.3 | 5.9 |
| Jefferson | C+ | 2.3 | 15.0 |
The five graded Wisconsin towns closest to Hales Corners’ population (7,740), 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 Hales Corners. 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 Hales Corners’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,773 in 2025); our figure for Hales Corners is 7,740 (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 Hales Corners
Is Hales Corners, WI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Hales Corners reports less crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #73 of 175 in Wisconsin. Its police reported 1.1 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 Hales Corners?
1.1 violent and 7.6 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.
Is Hales Corners safer than Greenfield?
Greenfield reports more crime per resident than Hales Corners: Greenfield grades C for safety and Hales Corners B+. Greenfield’s police reported 1.2 violent and 24.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Hales Corners?
Hales Corners’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Hales Corners”. 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.