Bolingbrook, IL has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 182 per 100,000, 48% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Bolingbrook, IL Crime Rate & Safety
At 74,177 residents, Bolingbrook 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.
Bolingbrook, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 48% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bolingbrook, IL shows violent crime at 182 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 779.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 48% 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.
A safety grade
182/100K violent
779.2/100K property
-48% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Bolingbrook, IL
Comparable rate records
Bolingbrook's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Bolingbrook's 182.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Villa Park (180.8), Oak Lawn (180.2), Crest Hill (179.8), West Chicago (184.2). 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
Bolingbrook sits mid-pack among comparable Illinois cities
At 182.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bolingbrook ranks 162 of 506 — above 344 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +82.6% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 18.9% of the 713 Part I offenses reported in Bolingbrook for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 7.7 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 56.1% of reported property offenses in Bolingbrook, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (179) and motor vehicle theft (75). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 174.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 182.0 in 2024 (+4.5%). The highest observed value was 221.2 in 2023 and the lowest 145.8 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Bolingbrook'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.
Bolingbrook's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 25 Census sq mi, Bolingbrook logged 23.1 property and 5.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bolingbrook leans on larceny-theft at 45% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,984.
Violent offenses are 19% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (25 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-17.7%
221.2 → 182/100K
Property Crime Rate
-12.9%
894.3 → 779.2/100K
Property offenses lead Bolingbrook's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs IL
Property Crime
578
779.2
1711
1664.8
Larceny-Theft
324
436.8
-
-
Burglary
179
241.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
75
101.1
-
-
Arson
6
8.1
-
-
Violent Crime
135
182
352
277.5
Aggravated Assault
88
118.6
-
-
Rape
33
44.5
-
-
Robbery
13
17.5
-
-
Murder
1
1.3
-
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Bolingbrook Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Bolingbrook property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Bolingbrook Police Department
Reporting agency for Bolingbrook NIBRS-participating
Bolingbrook Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bolingbrook's 713 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Illinois
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Bolingbrook in population. Their populations run from 63,960 to 87,155, against 74,177 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Bolingbrook reported 135 violent crimes and 578 property crimes, for a total of 713 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Bolingbrook?
From 2023 to 2024, Bolingbrook's violent crime rate decreased by 17.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.9%.
What is the most common crime in Bolingbrook?
The most common crime type in Bolingbrook is larceny-theft, accounting for 45.4% of all reported crimes (324 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Bolingbrook'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bolingbrook, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.