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Safety in Omro · FBI data, 2023–2025

Omro reports less crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns

On crimes reported to the FBI by Omro’s police in 2023–2025, it grades A− for safety: #47 of 175 graded towns in Wisconsin.

Violent crime
0.9
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of WI (3.6)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
5.2
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of WI (15.0)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
66
10 violent · 56 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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Omro’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; property crime is the stronger of the two.

Where Omro sits
B+ Violent 0.9A− Property 5.2
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 78%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Wisconsin towns we grade (175)Less crime than 73% · #47 of 175
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 69%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 66 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Omro anywhere from B+ to A.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Omro’s police reported 10 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.9 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

For every 1,000 residents, about 4 property crimes reported

And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Property crime (3.8)Violent crime (0.3)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Omro0.3
Rest of WI3.2
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Omro3.8
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.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

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.

Show as a table
YearOmro propertyRest of Wisconsin propertyOmro violentRest of Wisconsin violent
20224.418.20.84.0
20235.016.00.63.9
20246.615.41.93.8
20253.813.50.33.2

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

15 crimes reported in 2025

1 violent and 14 property, as reported to the FBI by Omro’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft11
Burglary2
Vehicle theft1
Aggravated assault1
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
1
violent crimes
14
property crimes

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

On the roads

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

Omro and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Omro
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
OmroA−0.95.2

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Wisconsin towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
OmroA−0.95.2
ArcadiaA+0.51.8
PeshtigoA0.91.5
WaterlooA0.53.8
MarshallA1.21.6
BloomerB2.44.5

The five graded Wisconsin towns closest to Omro’s population (3,639), by grade.

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 Omro. 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 Omro’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,640 in 2025); our figure for Omro is 3,639 (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 Omro

Is Omro, WI safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Omro reports less crime per resident than 78% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #47 of 175 in Wisconsin. Its police reported 0.9 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 Omro?

0.9 violent and 5.2 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 crime going up or down in Omro?

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.

Who polices Omro?

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