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Wisconsin and North Dakota compared

Wisconsin reported 244.5 violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2025 and North Dakota reported 240.2. Each rate is over the population that state's reporting agencies covered, which is 97.1% and 98.8% respectively.

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Wisconsin and North Dakota compared
MeasureWisconsinNorth Dakota
Violent crime rateviolent offenses per 100,000 residents covered244.5240.2
Property crime rateproperty offenses per 100,000 residents covered1,032.81,494.4
Violent offenses reportedoffenses14,1781,897
Property offenses reportedoffenses59,89311,803
Population the reporting agencies coveredresidents5,798,929.125789,818.995

What this data cannot show

  • These two states sit next to each other in the violent crime ranking. Their rates are close enough that the difference in rank means less than it appears to.
  • A rate here divides by the population the reporting agencies covered, not by everyone who lives in the state. That is the FBI’s own denominator and it is why the covered population is shown as a measure rather than left implicit.
  • The FBI cautions against ranking jurisdictions against one another. This page puts two side by side with the coverage that produced each, which is the most a reader can be given without the comparison asserting more than the data holds.

Sources

  • FBI Crime Data Explorer APIFederal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division · U.S. Government work, public domain (17 U.S.C. 105) · retrieved September 19, 2026

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