WisconsinWI · United States

Violent crime rate

25.8% below the national rate of 329.3 per 100,000

244.5 per 100,000 2025

Covers the 97.1% of the population whose agencies reported.

Offenses reported to police per 100,000 residents of the population the reporting agencies covered — not the state’s population, and a different share in each state. It is not a count of crime that happened.

FBI Crime Data Explorer API · Federal Bureau of Investigation, Criminal Justice Information Services Division

Imprisonment rate

3.9% below the national rate of 360 per 100,000

346 per 100,000 2023

People held under the state’s own correctional authority per 100,000 residents, from a different publisher counting a different thing. Never added to the rate above.

Bureau of Justice Statistics — Prisoners · U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics

Federal spending per resident

Higher than 39 of the 51 jurisdictions with a figure

$18,912 FY2025

Federal money obligated against a place of performance in the state, divided by its population. Where an award is administered, not where it reaches people.

USAspending API v2 · U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service

Registered nonprofits

30,700 of them registered as charities

39,461 2026

Organizations the IRS lists in its Exempt Organizations Business Master File with an address in the state. Registration is not activity — the file records status, not whether an organization still operates — and churches and the smallest organizations are not required to register at all, so this undercounts by an unknown amount.

Exempt Organizations Business Master File · Internal Revenue Service

Industry payments to health providers

22,773 doctors, across 559,650 separate payments

$204.5 million 2019–2025

What drug and device manufacturers reported paying doctors and practitioners with a practice address in the state, added up across seven program years rather than taken in one. General payments only — research funding and ownership interests are separate transactions and are not in it — and a total rather than an average, because the denominator an average needs is how many doctors practice in the state, which neither CMS source publishes.

Open Payments — payments grouped by physician · Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Farm payments paid out

31,934 recipients, across 149,055 payments

$547.3 million 2025

What the Farm Service Agency disbursed through the county offices in the state, in one calendar year. It is what those offices administered rather than what the state’s farms received — a recipient addressed in another state is counted where they were paid — and it is one agency: crop insurance is the Risk Management Agency’s and is not in it.

Farm program payment files · U.S. Department of Agriculture, Farm Service Agency

PPP loans approved

187,824 loans, 178,740 of them carrying a forgiveness amount

$14.2 billion 2020–2021

Paycheck Protection Program loans SBA guaranteed to businesses operating in the state, as each loan now stands. It counts loans, not businesses — a business with a first and a second draw is two — and it is loans, not grants: what was forgiven or charged off is on the state page, as of the date of SBA’s file.

SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) FOIA — loan-level data · U.S. Small Business Administration

School spending per pupil

10.3% below the national $16,398 per pupil

$14,704 FY2023

Current spending by the state’s public school districts over their fall membership, summed over every district, as NCES divides, for its newest fiscal year. It leaves out buildings, equipment and debt, it is in that year’s dollars, and a district that pays another to teach its pupils counts the tuition as its own spending.

NCES School District Finance Survey (F-33) — newest fiscal year · National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education

Bank offices per 100,000 residents

and 12.3 credit-union sites per 100,000 residents

26.4 June 2026

Full-service offices of FDIC-insured banks in the state, counted where each office is, over the Census Bureau’s estimate of the state’s population. A bank headquartered elsewhere counts its offices here; drive-throughs, loan production offices and other limited-service sites are not counted. Credit unions are the NCUA’s and are never added in.

FDIC BankFind — locations (every current office of an FDIC-insured institution) · Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

College sports revenue

across 36 colleges and 14,076 athletes

$380.5 million 2024–25

Athletics revenue the state’s colleges reported to the Department of Education’s Equity in Athletics survey for the newest survey year, which runs from September to August. It includes state support, student fees and what a college gives its own athletics, so it is not profit; it is in that year’s dollars, and each college counts under the state its newest row gives.

Equity in Athletics Disclosure Act data — every college athletics program, by institution · Office of Postsecondary Education, U.S. Department of Education

Federal civilian employees

Higher than 25 of the 51 jurisdictions with a figure

13,442 August 2026

Federal civilian employees in OPM’s file whose duty station is in the state, in the newest month OPM has not flagged as incomplete. OPM withholds the duty station of the Department of Defense, of ten security and sensitive agencies outside the Washington area and of twenty-six sensitive occupational series, so this counts the half of the workforce whose station is published, and a state with many Defense employees is undercounted most.

OPM Federal Workforce Data — Federal Employment Raw Data (EHRI Status) · U.S. Office of Personnel Management