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Safety in Newport · Not graded

No grade for Newport, but its recorded crime is here

Out to 25 miles, the count of graded towns reaches 5. Newport reports no crime figures of its own to the FBI for 2023–2025, so there is no Safety Grade. For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Portage (C+), 13 miles away.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Wisconsin towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
PortageC+13 mi1.316.5
ReedsburgC+15 mi1.216.5
MontelloA−23 mi1.25.1
MaustonB−23 mi1.911.2
AdamsC−25 mi3.621.0
New LisbonA29 mi1.31.8

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

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

On the roads

No one died in a crash on Newport’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 Newport’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Newport’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

Newport and its neighbors

A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Wisconsin Dells———
Delton———
Fairfield———
Lewiston———
Dell Prairie———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Wisconsin Dells, Delton, Fairfield, Lewiston and Dell Prairie have no FBI figures of their 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.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • 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 Newport

Is Newport, WI safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Newport. Newport has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Wisconsin towns with a grade are Portage (C+, 13 mi), Reedsburg (C+, 15 mi), Montello (A−, 23 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.