The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Pleasant Prairie, WI
Pleasant Prairie is a village of 22,500 in Kenosha County, about 4 miles southwest of downtown Kenosha · Updated November 2026
Is Pleasant Prairie, WI safe?
Yes. Crime is low across most of the US, and lower still in Pleasant Prairie: an overall CrimeGrade™ of A, safer than the neighborhoods where 71% of Americans live. Property crime grades better than violent crime here, A+ against A. Its neighborhoods are much alike, from A+ to A-; see the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 912 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
71% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Pleasant Prairie as a whole, and 29% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Pleasant Prairie scores 912.
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 Pleasant Prairie, WI at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Pleasant Prairie, 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 Pleasant Prairie
Aggravated assault is the exception. Pleasant Prairie grades A for violent crime, but aggravated assault grades B+, worse than in the neighborhoods where 66% of Americans live.
Simple assault runs low. Pleasant Prairie has 3.0 simple assaults a year per 1,000 residents, less than half the US rate of 9.7.
The safest and least safe parts of Pleasant Prairie
Every part of Pleasant Prairie where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Pleasant Prairie run from A+ to A-; every part of Pleasant Prairie has 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 Pleasant Prairie, the west side has the least crime and the north side the most.
Is crime going up in Pleasant Prairie?
Reported property crime in Pleasant Prairie has fallen 45% since 2019. Too few violent crimes are reported here each year for a reliable violent crime trend. Burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts went from about 20 to 11 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 24%.
Property crime, change since 2019
Pleasant PrairieUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Pleasant Prairie. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Property, Pleasant Prairie
Property, US
2016
-5%
+15%
2017
+11%
+12%
2018
-6%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
-27%
-8%
2021
-39%
-10%
2022
-50%
-6%
2023
-56%
-7%
2024
-45%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Pleasant Prairie
CrimeGrade™ estimates Pleasant Prairie has about 19 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 49% less than the US as a whole and 23% less 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 is the most common crime in Pleasant Prairie, about 54% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does far 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 Pleasant Prairie
Pleasant Prairie has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Thefts from cars happen most often in parking lots and garages: 40% of them, against 31% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (40%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (46%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (58%)
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.
How Pleasant Prairie compares with nearby cities
Pleasant Prairie has less crime than 4 of its 7 nearest cities.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Pleasant Prairie. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Pleasant Prairie is safer than 55% of them.
Parking lots, jobs and walkability in Pleasant Prairie
Two things set Pleasant Prairie apart: it has 5.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 91 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report more theft, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.5.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 99% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.91 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 95% 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. 95% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.F (6 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 89% of US city residents
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.2.1% of homesUS: 7.1%Lower than for 94% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.15.1 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 88% 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 Pleasant Prairie: F (0 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% 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 Pleasant Prairie
Crime costs Pleasant Prairie about $588 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 51% 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 $20 million a year, or $885 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$960,000
$42
Rape
$180,000
$8
Robbery
$100,000
$5
Assault
$2.3 million
$100
Burglary
$110,000
$5
Theft
$1.2 million
$52
Vehicle theft
$190,000
$8
Arson
$6,400
under $1
Vandalism
$250,000
$11
Total
$5.2 million
$232
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 Pleasant Prairie 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 Pleasant Prairie, WI average a SchoolGrade of C: 41% of students test proficient, against 36% projected for schools like them. Overall, they greatly exceed expectations. See schools in Pleasant Prairie on SchoolGrade
