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Safety in Medford · FBI data, 2023–2025

For property crime, Medford trails 68% of U.S. towns per resident

Overall, Medford grades C+ for safety (#142 of 175 graded towns in Wisconsin): more crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported in 2023–2025. Even so, the local count comes to 1.7 violent crimes and 16.3 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 3.6 and 15.0 in the rest of Wisconsin.

Violent crime
1.7
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of WI (3.6)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
16.3
per 1,000 a year · Close to rest of WI (15.0)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
240
23 violent · 217 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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 · In brief

What stands out about safety in Medford

Among Wisconsin towns, lower

Wisconsin’s cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Medford’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 19% of the 175 Wisconsin towns we grade, against 39% nationally. Safety Grade ↓

A job center

Medford has 5,306 jobs based in town for 4,589 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Medford’s grade

Where Medford sits
B− Violent 1.7C Property 16.3
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 39%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Wisconsin towns we grade (175)Less crime than 19% · #142 of 175
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 29%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 240 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Medford anywhere from C to B−.

How TownRatings grades safety →

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 higher than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (1.7) 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. Its property rate (16.3) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Medford’s police reported 23 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.6 in the rest of Wisconsin and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in Medford per 1,000 residents

Property crime (15.6)Violent crime (1.7)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Medford1.7
Rest of WI3.2
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Medford15.6
Rest of WI13.5
U.S. (FBI)15.5

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.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

Show as a table
YearMedford propertyRest of Wisconsin propertyMedford violentRest of Wisconsin violent
202218.118.21.64.0
202321.416.01.23.9
202412.015.42.33.8
202515.613.51.73.2

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.

What gets reported

81 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft69
Burglary1
Vehicle theft3
Aggravated assault5
Robbery0
Rape3
Homicide0
Arson0
8
violent crimes
73
property crimes

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

8 violent and 73 property, as reported to the FBI by Medford’s police.

On the roads

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

Medford and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
MedfordC+1.716.3
Medford (township)———
Little Black———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Medford (township) and Little Black have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.

Wisconsin towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
MedfordC+1.716.3
PrescottA−0.93.9
KewaskumA−0.75.7
OcontoB+0.96.5
SaukvilleB−1.213.5
ClintonvilleB−1.413.5

The five graded Wisconsin towns closest to Medford’s population (4,589), by grade.

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 Medford. 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 Medford’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (4,670 in 2025); our figure for Medford is 4,589 (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 Medford

Is Medford, WI safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Medford reports more crime per resident than 61% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade and #142 of 175 in Wisconsin. Its police reported 1.7 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 Medford?

1.7 violent and 16.3 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 Medford?

Medford’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Medford”. 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.