Crime rates for Greendale, WI

Greendale has an overall crime rate of 31 per 1,000 residents, making the crime rate here near the average for all cities and towns of all sizes in America. According to our analysis of FBI crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in Greendale is 1 in 32. How does Greendale fare compared to other communities in Wisconsin of all population sizes? Greendale's crime rate is lower than approximately 30% of Wisconsin communities.

How does the crime rate in Greendale compare to similar sized village across America? When NeighborhoodScout compared Greendale with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Greendale's crime rate is high or low compared to all places in the US, when we control for population size and compare it to places that are similar in size, it is near the middle of the pack in crime rate – not much more or less dangerous, and about what we would expect from the statistics.

The crime data that NeighborhoodScout used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Now let us turn to take a look at how Greendale does for violent crimes specifically, and then how it does for property crimes. This is important because the overall crime rate can be further illuminated by understanding if violent crime or property crimes (or both) are the major contributors to the general rate of crime in Greendale.

For Greendale, NeighborhoodScout found that the violent crime rate is well below the national average for all communities of all population sizes. Violent crimes such as assault, rape, murder and armed robbery happen less often in Greendale than in most of America. One's chance of becoming a victim of a violent crime here is one in 1441, which is a violent crime rate of 1 per one thousand inhabitants.

NeighborhoodScout's analysis also reveals that Greendale's rate for property crime is 30 per one thousand population. This makes Greendale a place where there is an above average chance of becoming a victim of a property crime, when compared to all other communities in America of all population sizes. Property crimes are motor vehicle theft, arson, larceny, and burglary. Your chance of becoming a victim of any of these crimes in Greendale is one in 33.