Photo: Royalbroil · CC BY-SA 3.0Recorded crime per resident in Sheboygan Falls rose 276% from 2023 to 2025
The overall Safety Grade is B+ (#59 of 175 graded towns in Wisconsin), which means less crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns, judged on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. On top of that, on violence it beats 78% of U.S. towns, and on property crime 66%. In a usual year, 0.7 violent crime and 7.5 incidents of property crime are logged per 1,000 inhabitants; in the rest of Wisconsin, 3.6 and 15.0.
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 Sheboygan Falls
Sheboygan Falls reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 4 Wisconsin towns on Sheboygan Falls’ borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Kohler (C+). Sheboygan Falls (township), Lima and Wilson have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Reported crime is rising
Crime reported per resident rose 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 Sheboygan Falls’ 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 | Sheboygan Falls property | Rest of Wisconsin property | Sheboygan Falls violent | Rest of Wisconsin violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4.5 | 18.2 | 0.6 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.6 | 16.0 | 0.6 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 8.6 | 15.5 | 0.6 | 3.8 |
| 2025 | 11.2 | 13.5 | 0.8 | 3.2 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident rose 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 | Sheboygan Falls | Rest of Wisconsin | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.6 | 4.0 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 3.9 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 3.2 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Sheboygan Falls’ police reported 17 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 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 Sheboygan Falls 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.
105 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.
7 violent and 98 property, as reported to the FBI by Sheboygan Falls’ police.
One person died in crashes on Sheboygan Falls’s roads in 2019–2023
Sheboygan Falls 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 Sheboygan Falls’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sheboygan Falls’s own rate (2.3) 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.
Sheboygan Falls and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheboygan Falls | B+ | 0.7 | 7.5 |
| Sheboygan Falls (township) | — | — | — |
| Lima | — | — | — |
| Kohler | C+ | 0.0 | 25.2 |
| Wilson | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Sheboygan Falls (township), Lima and Wilson have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Wisconsin towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheboygan Falls | B+ | 0.7 | 7.5 |
| Plymouth | A− | 0.1 | 7.2 |
| Mukwonago | B | 1.1 | 9.4 |
| Lake Geneva | B− | 1.1 | 14.8 |
| Rice Lake | C | 3.6 | 12.6 |
| Monona | C− | 0.9 | 30.4 |
The five graded Wisconsin towns closest to Sheboygan Falls’ population (8,687), 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 Sheboygan Falls. 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 Sheboygan Falls’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,775 in 2025); our figure for Sheboygan Falls is 8,687 (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 Sheboygan Falls
Is Sheboygan Falls, WI safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Sheboygan Falls reports less crime per resident than 74% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #59 of 175 in Wisconsin. Its police reported 0.7 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 Sheboygan Falls?
0.7 violent and 7.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Wisconsin reports 3.6 and 15.0; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Is Sheboygan Falls safer than Kohler?
Kohler reports more crime per resident than Sheboygan Falls: Kohler grades C+ for safety and Sheboygan Falls B+. Kohler’s police reported 0.0 violent and 25.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Sheboygan Falls?
Sheboygan Falls’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Sheboygan Falls”. 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.