The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Fond Du Lac, WI
Fond Du Lac is a city of 55,200 in Fond du Lac County and the main city of the Fond Du Lac metro area, home to 104,100 · Updated November 2026
Is Fond Du Lac, WI safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in Fond Du Lac is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Fond Du Lac sits near the middle: 55% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 45% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Fond Du Lac run from A+ to B-, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 860 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
55% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Fond Du Lac as a whole, and 45% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Fond Du Lac scores 860.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Fond Du Lac, WI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Fond Du Lac, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out in Fond Du Lac
Reported rape stands out among A-graded cities. For the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 0.25 reported rapes a year per 1,000 residents; Fond Du Lac has 0.57.
Vehicle theft runs low. Fond Du Lac has 0.53 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, a small fraction of the US rate of 2.7.
The safest and least safe parts of Fond Du Lac
Every part of Fond Du Lac where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Fond Du Lac run from A+ to B-; 50% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Fond Du Lac, the northeast side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Fond Du Lac?
Reported crime in Fond Du Lac has risen since 2019: violent crime is up 20% and property crime up 13%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.2 to 3.9 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 19 to 21 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 14%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Fond Du LacUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Fond Du Lac. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Fond Du Lac
Violent, US
Property, Fond Du Lac
Property, US
2016
+1%
+4%
+21%
+15%
2017
-19%
+4%
+14%
+12%
2018
-26%
+0%
+28%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-6%
+4%
+6%
-8%
2021
-12%
+6%
-16%
-10%
2022
-5%
+5%
-10%
-6%
2023
+17%
+2%
-1%
-7%
2024
+20%
-4%
+13%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Fond Du Lac
CrimeGrade™ estimates Fond Du Lac has about 33 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 12% less than the US as a whole and 34% more than Wisconsin.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Theft makes up about 49% of crime reported in Fond Du Lac. Assault is less common but costs more, because each one does more harm.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when crime happens in Fond Du Lac
Fond Du Lac has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Fond Du Lac, 57% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 52% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (57%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Car theft
Homes (44%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (52%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (55%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (56%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times; they are over one in five for car theft, theft from cars.
How Fond Du Lac compares with nearby cities
Fond Du Lac has the most crime of its 5 nearest cities.
Parking lots, transit and walkability in Fond Du Lac
One thing sets Fond Du Lac apart: it has 3.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 94% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Fond Du Lac: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 72% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D+ (22 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 67% of US city residents
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JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.61 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 77% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.83% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 68% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.10.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 58% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Fond Du Lac
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Fond Du Lac about $805 a year per household, 33% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $59 million a year, or $1,066 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$2.4 million
$43
Rape
$1.9 million
$34
Robbery
$390,000
$7
Assault
$6.1 million
$110
Burglary
$390,000
$7
Theft
$4.5 million
$82
Vehicle theft
$450,000
$8
Arson
$70,000
$1
Vandalism
$2.5 million
$45
Total
$19 million
$337
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in Fond Du Lac means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
Schools in Fond Du Lac, WI average a SchoolGrade of B-: 48% of students test proficient, against 43% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Fond Du Lac on SchoolGrade
