Addison, IL has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 140 per 100,000, 60% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Addison (35,011 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then IL and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Addison, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 60% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Addison, IL shows violent crime at 140 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 894 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 60% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Addison's 140.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are North Pekin (140.1), Harvard (139.4), Evanston (141.6), McLean (137.9). These are same-year agency submissions that pass the same completeness screen, not a claim that the cities have identical conditions. They make the cohort position above checkable against named records instead of a generic state average.
2020–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 178.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 140.0 in 2024 (-21.6%). The highest observed value was 178.5 in 2020 and the lowest 123.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 140.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Addison ranks 205 of 506 — above 301 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +40.4% against the cohort median of 99.7. Cities that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 60.4% of reported property offenses in Addison, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (78) and motor vehicle theft (46). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Addison's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; cities that fail the completeness test stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 9.8 Census sq mi, Addison logged 31.8 property and 5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Addison leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,423.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Addison offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 313 | 894 |
| Larceny-Theft | 189 | 539.8 |
| Burglary | 78 | 222.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 46 | 131.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 2.9 |
| Violent Crime | 49 | 140 |
| Aggravated Assault | 24 | 68.5 |
| Rape | 17 | 48.6 |
| Robbery | 8 | 22.8 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 36,411 | 178.5 | 1084.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 36,149 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 35,039 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 34,875 | 123.3 | 900.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 35,011 | 140 | 894 |
Addison Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Addison's 362 reported offenses (3-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
This agency reports via NIBRS, the incident-based system that captures more detail per offense (multiple crimes per incident, victim/offender data) than the older summary counts.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Addison in population. Their populations run from 33,387 to 37,379, against 35,011 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Addison sits at 140/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Addison at 140/100K violent and 894/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
140/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
894/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+13.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Addison reported 49 violent crimes and 313 property crimes, for a total of 362 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Addison's violent crime rate increased by 13.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.7%.
The most common crime type in Addison is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.2% of all reported crimes (189 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Addison figures are FBI UCR CIUS Table 8 (vintage 2024), population-adjusted per 100,000.
Denominators are the reporting-year population on the municipal row. Incomplete years are dropped from rankings. Confirm at FBI Crime Data Explorer and Census.gov QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (mid-size municipal): figures are informational, not advice. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program is the source. Consult a professional before decisions.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Addison's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Addison, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Addison is scored in the mid-size municipal band (35,011 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.