Belleville, IL has a D safety grade (31/100) with a violent crime rate of 532 per 100,000, 51% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Belleville (40,225 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
Belleville, IL carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 51% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Belleville, IL shows violent crime at 532 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,812.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 51% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 532.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Belleville ranks 29 of 506 — above 477 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +433.8% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Belleville's 532.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mattoon (528.4), Chicago (539.8), Hazel Crest (540.2), Rock Island (544.1). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 22.7% of the 943 Part I offenses reported in Belleville for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 11.5 points. Offense mix is shaped by which agencies report and how incidents are classified as well as by the underlying offenses, so it describes the reported record rather than a settled difference in conditions.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 49.8% of reported property offenses in Belleville, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (234) and motor vehicle theft (132). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 582.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 532.0 in 2024 (-8.6%). The highest observed value was 582.2 in 2020 and the lowest 333.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Belleville'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 23.2 Census sq mi, Belleville logged 31.4 property and 9.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Belleville leans on larceny-theft at 38% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,603.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Belleville offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (23.2 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 | 729 | 1812.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 363 | 902.4 |
| Burglary | 234 | 581.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 132 | 328.2 |
| Arson | 9 | 22.4 |
| Violent Crime | 214 | 532 |
| Aggravated Assault | 162 | 402.7 |
| Rape | 31 | 77.1 |
| Robbery | 15 | 37.3 |
| Murder | 6 | 14.9 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 40,537 | 582.2 | 2684 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 40,184 | 333.5 | 1331.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 41,291 | 419 | 1550 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 40,820 | 414 | 1758.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 40,225 | 532 | 1812.3 |
Belleville Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Belleville's 943 reported offenses (5-year span 2020-2024).
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 Belleville in population. Their populations run from 38,204 to 42,283, against 40,225 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Belleville sits at 532/100K violent (grade D); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Belleville at 532/100K violent and 1,812.3/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
532/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,812.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+28.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Belleville reported 214 violent crimes and 729 property crimes, for a total of 943 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Belleville's violent crime rate increased by 28.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 3%.
The most common crime type in Belleville is larceny-theft, accounting for 38.5% of all reported crimes (363 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Belleville 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 Belleville's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Belleville, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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