Bradley, IL has a C safety grade (53/100) with a violent crime rate of 269 per 100,000, 23% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Bradley (15,224 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 2026-09-05
Bradley, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 23% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Bradley, IL shows violent crime at 269.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,338.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 23% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
2022–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 20.1 per 100,000 in 2022 to 269.3 in 2024 (+1242.1%). The highest observed value was 269.3 in 2024 and the lowest 20.1 in 2022. 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 Bradley's 269.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are St. Anne (267.9), Elgin (266.7), Aurora (266.0), North Riverside (272.8). 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 269.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Bradley ranks 101 of 506 — above 405 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +170.2% 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 Bradley'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 7.3 Census sq mi, Bradley logged 48.9 property and 5.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Bradley's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 397 offenses; mix index 5,272).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Bradley offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.3 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 | 356 | 2338.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 275 | 1806.4 |
| Burglary | 81 | 532.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 41 | 269.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 29 | 190.5 |
| Rape | 7 | 46 |
| Robbery | 3 | 19.7 |
| Murder | 2 | 13.1 |
The chart omits 2020, 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2022-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 15,251 | - | - |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 15,058 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,950 | 20.1 | 441.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,159 | 237.5 | 2163.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,224 | 269.3 | 2338.4 |
Bradley Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Bradley's 397 reported offenses (3-year span 2022-2024).
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 Bradley in population. Their populations run from 14,907 to 15,787, against 15,224 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Bradley sits at 269.3/100K violent (grade C); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Bradley at 269.3/100K violent and 2,338.4/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
269.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,338.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Bradley reported 41 violent crimes and 356 property crimes, for a total of 397 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Bradley's violent crime rate increased by 13.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 8.1%.
The most common crime type in Bradley is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.3% of all reported crimes (275 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Bradley 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 Bradley's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Bradley, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
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