Reviewed and updated October 9, 2026 by the SearchSystems.net editorial team. The arrest counts are the ones the agency reported to the FBI, through 2025. The jail figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data. Every office link was opened and checked against the office's own site between September 23, 2026 and September 25, 2026.
Marshfield, Wisconsin, in Wood County, has about 19,000 residents (2024 Census Bureau estimate), and its arrests are reported to the FBI by an agency of its own. An arrest in the city leaves the same records whoever makes it: the arresting agency's report, the record of anyone held at the county jail, and, if the District Attorney files charges, a case in the Wood County Circuit Court. This guide says who keeps each one, what it costs and who may see it, with the arrest counts the agency reported.
This guide covers who makes arrests, how many arrests, booking and the jail, finding an arrest, copies and common questions.
Related guides: Marshfield public records, Wood County arrest records, Wisconsin arrest records and Wisconsin inmate search.
Who Makes Arrests in Marshfield
The FBI lists Marshfield with an arrest reporting agency of its own, filed as Marshfield Police Department. It reported 1,388 arrests for 2025. A city is listed separately whether the officers are the city's own or the sheriff's under contract; the FBI's list does not say which.
Outside the city, the Wood County Sheriff's Office is the county agency. It reported 572 arrests for 2024.
How Many Arrests Marshfield Reports
The FBI publishes every agency's monthly arrest counts on the Crime Data Explorer. These are the full-year totals, all offenses, as the FBI held them on October 8, 2026; a year with months missing or not reported is left out.
- Marshfield: 1,388 for 2025, 1,342 for 2024, 1,508 for 2023, 1,756 for 2022, 1,545 for 2021 and 1,948 for 2020.
Marshfield's 1,388 arrests in 2025 were up 3.4 percent from 1,342 in 2024.
Through March 2026, Marshfield reported 294 arrests, against 326 in the same months of 2025.
Across Wood County, the five agencies with all twelve months of 2024 on file reported 3,848 arrests between them.
Booking: Where People Arrested in Marshfield Are Held
The county jail is where a person arrested in Marshfield and kept in custody ends up, whichever agency made the arrest, though a city department may hold someone in its own cells first and a person cited and released at the scene is never booked. The jail's record of each person held, with the charges, is a public record of the arrest, and once the person is released or sentenced the record continues in the court file.
On an average day in 2025 the jail held about 130 people, up from about 98 in 2019. Its rated capacity in 2025 was 132 beds, and it ran at 97 percent of it that year. The figures are from the Vera Institute of Justice's Incarceration Trends data.
A person sentenced to prison serves the sentence in a facility of the Wisconsin Department of Corrections, whose inmate locator is at appsdoc.wi.gov/lop/welcome.
How to Find Out About an Arrest in Marshfield
Whether someone was arrested in Marshfield, and what came of it, shows up in two places: the case index of the Wood County Circuit Court, which shows whether charges were filed and the next court date (the court records page SearchSystems verified is at woodcountywi.gov/departments/courts, phone 715-421-8490); the District Attorney, which decides whether an arrest becomes a charge (its page is at woodcountywi.gov/Departments/DA, phone (715) 421-8515).
Statewide, Wisconsin Circuit Court Access is the free statewide case search of every circuit court.
Wisconsin is one of the states that lets anyone look up another person's statewide criminal history: the Wisconsin Online Record Check System lets anyone run a name-based check, through the Wisconsin Department of Justice. That record shows what agencies reported to the state, which is wider than one county's court index but can lag it.
Getting a Copy of an Arrest Record in Marshfield
The report of an arrest is released by the agency that made it; the jail and the court hold their own records of the same event, but not the report. Under the Wisconsin Public Records Law the agency must answer as soon as practicable and without delay; the law sets no number of days, and it may charge the actual cost of copying and locating, with no charge for the first $50 of locating.
- An arrest by the Marshfield police: the police department's page SearchSystems verified at cityofmarshfieldwi.gov/departments_and_divisions/new_page_2.php (page title: Welcome to Marshfield, WI), phone 715-384-3113, 110 W. 1st Street Marshfield, WI 54449, Monday-Thursday: 7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., which answered when SearchSystems opened it on September 25, 2026.
- An arrest by the Wood County Sheriff's Office: ask its records unit.
- A defendant who has been charged gets the report through the case: the District Attorney, (715) 421-8515, handles discovery for pending cases.
- The court file of a case that was filed: the Wood County Circuit Court, through the court records page at woodcountywi.gov/departments/courts, phone 715-421-8490.
- Any county record that is not posted: the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at woodcountywi.gov (page title: Fine and Citation Payment | Wood County Wisconsin).
- Your own statewide record: the same request described above, for your own name.
The Wood County guide covers every agency in the county: Wood County arrest records.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many arrests are made in Marshfield each year?
Marshfield reported 1,388 arrests to the FBI for 2025, its latest full year.
Where are people arrested in Marshfield booked?
Those kept in custody go to the county jail, run by the Wood County Sheriff's Office; a person cited and released at the scene is not booked.
Are arrest records public in Marshfield?
The court files of criminal cases are public, and so is the statewide criminal history kept by the Wisconsin Department of Justice: the Wisconsin Online Record Check System lets anyone run a name-based check. The arrest report itself is released by the agency that made the arrest, under the Wisconsin Public Records Law.
How do I get a copy of an arrest report in Marshfield?
From the agency that made the arrest: the Marshfield police for its own arrests, the Wood County Sheriff's Office for the sheriff's. Under the Wisconsin Public Records Law the answer is due as soon as practicable and without delay; the law sets no number of days; the county records request page SearchSystems verified is at woodcountywi.gov.
Is this the official Marshfield website?
No. SearchSystems.net is an independent public records guide, online since 1997. It links to the official city, county, court and state offices described above and does not hold records, charge for them or take requests.