Blue Island, IL has a D safety grade (33/100) with a violent crime rate of 434 per 100,000, 23% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Blue Island (21,179 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
Blue Island, IL carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 23% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Blue Island, IL shows violent crime at 434.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,686.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 23% 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 434.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Blue Island ranks 45 of 506 — above 461 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +335.8% 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 Blue Island's 434.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carmi (431.1), Carlinville (438.0), Anna (440.3), Milan (426.0). 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 298.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 434.4 in 2024 (+45.7%). The highest observed value was 588.6 in 2022 and the lowest 231.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 45.7% of reported property offenses in Blue Island, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (136) and motor vehicle theft (173). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Blue Island'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 4.1 Census sq mi, Blue Island logged 139.8 property and 22.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Blue Island leans on larceny-theft at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,740.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Blue Island offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.1 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 | 569 | 2686.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 260 | 1227.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 173 | 816.8 |
| Burglary | 136 | 642.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.7 |
| Violent Crime | 92 | 434.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 55 | 259.7 |
| Robbery | 23 | 108.6 |
| Rape | 11 | 51.9 |
| Murder | 3 | 14.2 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 22,810 | 298.1 | 736.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 22,509 | 231 | 1132.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,577 | 588.6 | 2929 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,344 | 468.5 | 3026.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,179 | 434.4 | 2686.6 |
Blue Island Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Blue Island's 661 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 Blue Island in population. Their populations run from 20,487 to 21,873, against 21,179 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Blue Island sits at 434.4/100K violent (grade D); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Blue Island at 434.4/100K violent and 2,686.6/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
434.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,686.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Blue Island reported 92 violent crimes and 569 property crimes, for a total of 661 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Blue Island's violent crime rate decreased by 7.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.2%.
The most common crime type in Blue Island is larceny-theft, accounting for 39.3% of all reported crimes (260 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Blue Island 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 Blue Island's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Blue Island, 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. Blue Island is scored in the mid-size municipal band (21,179 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.