Crime & Safety

The 100 Safest Municipalities in Wisconsin: Brookfield Makes the List; A Waukesha County Village is Number One.

12 Waukesha County municipalities made Wisconsin's top 100. Two were ranked among the top 50 safest in the U.S. Find out which ones.

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WISCONSIN -- Everybody wants to live in a place where they are safe.

The Niche.com 2016 Safest Places to Live ranking provides a comprehensive assessment of the overall safety at the municipal level.

The village of North Prairie in Waukesha County was rated as the safest community in Wisconsin in 2015.

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Brookfield, a 28-square-mile village containing nearly 38,000 people, came in 77th on the list. According to FBI data, Brookfield saw 20 violent crimes, 10 robberies, 10 aggravated assaults, 1,012 property crimes, 79 burglaries, 917 theft cases and 16 motor vehicle thefts during the reporting period used to generate the Niche.com rankings.

Other Waukesha municipalities made the top 100 as well, including Eagle (2), Summit (15), Muskego (19), Delafield (23), Elm Grove (26), Hartland (28), Big Bend (33), Menomonee Falls (36), Pewaukee (53), Mukwonago (62) and Brookfield (74).

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The City of Waukesha comes in just out of the top 100:

102 Waukesha

Niche.com rankings take into account key indicators of a location’s safety, including violent and property crime rates, in an attempt to measure an area’s safety and security.

Niche.com also weighed several factors, including the numbers of assaults, robberies, murders, burglaries, vehicle thefts and property thefts per 100,000 residents from data obtained through the FBI's Uniform Crime Reports.

Here is how Wisconsin's safest cities ranked nationally:

Here is a list of the 100 safest places in Wisconsin:

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