With a crime rate of 43 per one thousand residents, Milwaukee has one of the highest crime rates in America compared to all communities of all sizes - from the smallest towns to the very largest cities. One's chance of becoming a victim of either violent or property crime here is one in 24. Within Wisconsin, more than 99% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Milwaukee. In fact, after researching dangerous places to live, 蘑菇视频 found Milwaukee to be one of the <a href="/blog/top100dangerous">top 100 most dangerous cities in the U.S.A.</a> How does the crime rate in Milwaukee compare to similar sized communities across America? When 蘑菇视频 compared Milwaukee with other communities its size, we found that the crime rate was near the average for all other communities of similar size. So, whether Milwaukee'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 蘑菇视频 used for this analysis are the seven offenses from the uniform crime reports, collected by the FBI from 18,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined. Now let us turn to take a look at how Milwaukee 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 Milwaukee. For Milwaukee, we found that the violent crime rate is one of the highest in the nation, across communities of all sizes (both large and small). Violent offenses tracked included rape, murder and non-negligent manslaughter, armed robbery, and aggravated assault, including assault with a deadly weapon. According to 蘑菇视频's analysis of FBI reported crime data, your chance of becoming a victim of one of these crimes in Milwaukee is one in 68. Significantly, based on the number of murders reported by the FBI and the number of residents living in the city, 蘑菇视频's analysis shows that Milwaukee experiences one of the higher murder rates in the nation when compared with cities and towns for all sizes of population, from the largest to the smallest. In addition, 蘑菇视频 found that a lot of the crime that takes place in Milwaukee is property crime. Property crimes that are tracked for this analysis are burglary, larceny over fifty dollars, motor vehicle theft, and arson. In Milwaukee, your chance of becoming a victim of a property crime is one in 36, which is a rate of 28 per one thousand population. Importantly, we found that Milwaukee has one of the highest rates of motor vehicle theft in the nation according to our analysis of FBI crime data. This is compared to communities of all sizes, from the smallest to the largest. In fact, your chance of getting your car stolen if you live in Milwaukee is one in 98.