Crime & Safety

The 100 Safest Municipalities in Wisconsin: How Pleasant is Mount Pleasant?

12 Waukesha County municipalities made Wisconsin's top 100. Find out whether the rankings favor Mount Pleasant vs Caledonia.

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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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The village of Mount Pleasant saw 15 violent crimes including 1 murder, 2 rape cases and 12 robberies. Mount pleasant also saw 795 property crimes, including 70 burglaries, 706 theft cases and 19 vehicle theft cases during the reporting period used to generate the Niche.com rankings. Mount Pleasant came in at 63rd in the ranking. See below to compare Mount Pleasant with Caledonia and other municipalities.

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.

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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.

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