Photo: Freekee · Public domainFor violent crime, Mequon beats 87% of U.S. towns per resident
Scored on crimes Mequon’s police reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on A− for safety: #36 of 175 graded towns in Wisconsin. Typical years here bring 0.4 violent crime plus 5.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents, against 3.6 plus 15.1 in the rest of Wisconsin. Of the 3 towns on its borders with figures, 2 record less crime per resident.
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 Mequon
2 of the 3 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 4 Wisconsin towns on Mequon’s borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Bayside (A), Cedarburg (A), Milwaukee (D−). Cedarburg (township) has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
A college town
Mequon is home to Concordia University-Wisconsin, with 3,403 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 8% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Mequon’s 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Mequon | Rest of Wisconsin | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.3 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mequon’s police reported 33 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.4 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 Mequon 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 fewer than 1 violent crime, 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 | Mequon property | Rest of Wisconsin property | Mequon violent | Rest of Wisconsin violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.9 | 18.3 | 0.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 5.9 | 16.1 | 0.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 5.6 | 15.5 | 0.4 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 5.1 | 13.6 | 0.3 | 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.
137 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.
8 violent and 129 property, as reported to the FBI by Mequon’s police.
One person died in crashes on Mequon’s roads in 2019–2023
Mequon had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is fewer than is typical for Wisconsin towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (3.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Mequon’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mequon’s own rate (0.8) 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.
Mequon and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mequon | A− | 0.4 | 5.5 |
| Bayside | A | 0.5 | 3.1 |
| Cedarburg (city) | A | 0.7 | 3.6 |
| Cedarburg (township) | — | — | — |
| Milwaukee | D− | 13.4 | 25.9 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Cedarburg (township) has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Wisconsin towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mequon | A− | 0.4 | 5.5 |
| Caledonia | A | 0.6 | 4.3 |
| De Pere | A− | 0.7 | 5.5 |
| Muskego | B+ | 0.4 | 8.7 |
| Stevens Point | B | 1.5 | 7.4 |
| Grand Chute | D | 2.3 | 41.2 |
The five graded Wisconsin towns closest to Mequon’s population (25,120), 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 Mequon. 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 Mequon’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,378 in 2025); our figure for Mequon is 25,120 (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 Mequon
Is Mequon, WI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mequon reports less crime per resident than 84% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #36 of 175 in Wisconsin. Its police reported 0.4 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 Mequon?
0.4 violent and 5.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Wisconsin reports 3.6 and 15.1; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Mequon in 2025?
Mequon’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Mequon safer than Bayside?
Bayside reports less crime per resident than Mequon: Bayside grades A for safety and Mequon A−. Bayside’s police reported 0.5 violent and 3.1 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Mequon?
Mequon’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mequon”. 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.