Berwyn, IL has a A safety grade (78/100) with a violent crime rate of 119 per 100,000, 66% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 53,581 residents, Berwyn is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against IL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Berwyn, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 66% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Berwyn, IL shows violent crime at 119.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,132.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 66% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 301.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 119.4 in 2024 (-60.3%). The highest observed value was 301.0 in 2020 and the lowest 93.6 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Berwyn's 119.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Elk Grove Village (119.7), Stockton (118.8), Des Plaines (120.6), Harwood Heights (117.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 119.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Berwyn ranks 230 of 506 — above 276 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +19.8% 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.
Property counts dominate Berwyn'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Berwyn's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 671 offenses; mix index 4,507).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Berwyn offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 607 | 1132.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 430 | 802.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 107 | 199.7 |
| Burglary | 70 | 130.6 |
| Arson | 4 | 7.5 |
| Violent Crime | 64 | 119.4 |
| Robbery | 31 | 57.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 46.7 |
| Rape | 8 | 14.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 54,144 | 301 | 1172.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 53,414 | 93.6 | 509.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 54,654 | 131.7 | 772.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 54,052 | 148 | 723.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 53,581 | 119.4 | 1132.9 |
Berwyn Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Berwyn's 671 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 Berwyn in population. Their populations run from 51,306 to 57,218, against 53,581 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Berwyn sits at 119.4/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Berwyn at 119.4/100K violent and 1,132.9/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
119.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,132.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-19.3% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Berwyn reported 64 violent crimes and 607 property crimes, for a total of 671 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Berwyn's violent crime rate decreased by 19.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 56.6%.
The most common crime type in Berwyn is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.1% of all reported crimes (430 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Berwyn's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Berwyn's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Berwyn, 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. Berwyn is scored here as a large city UCR reporter (53,581 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.