Calumet Park, IL has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 987 per 100,000, 180% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Calumet Park is a small municipal reporter (6,586 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Calumet Park, IL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 180% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Calumet Park, IL shows violent crime at 986.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,522.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 180% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Position in the state cohort
At 986.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Calumet Park ranks 8 of 506 — above 498 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +890.2% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 2151.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 986.9 in 2024 (-54.1%). The highest observed value was 2151.8 in 2020 and the lowest 768.2 in 2023. 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 Calumet Park's 986.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carbondale (1004.9), Alton (963.4), Springfield (901.2), Rockford (1080.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.9% of the 297 Part I offenses reported in Calumet Park for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 10.7 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
Larceny-theft is 59.5% of reported property offenses in Calumet Park, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (22) and motor vehicle theft (72). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Calumet Park'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Across 1.1 Census sq mi, Calumet Park logged 207.7 property and 58.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Calumet Park leans on larceny-theft at 46% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,984.
Violent offenses are 22% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Calumet Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.1 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 | 232 | 3522.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 138 | 2095.4 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 72 | 1093.2 |
| Burglary | 22 | 334 |
| Arson | 1 | 15.2 |
| Violent Crime | 65 | 986.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 31 | 470.7 |
| Robbery | 23 | 349.2 |
| Rape | 11 | 167 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,575 | 2151.8 | 1280.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 7,477 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 6,711 | 998.4 | 4410.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 6,639 | 768.2 | 3268.6 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,586 | 986.9 | 3522.6 |
Calumet Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Calumet Park's 297 reported offenses (4-year span 2020-2024, with internal gaps).
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 Calumet Park in population. Their populations run from 6,394 to 6,876, against 6,586 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Calumet Park sits at 986.9/100K violent (grade F); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Calumet Park reported 65 violent crimes and 232 property crimes, for a total of 297 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Calumet Park's violent crime rate increased by 28.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.8%.
The most common crime type in Calumet Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.5% of all reported crimes (138 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Calumet Park is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Small-city rate methodology for how Calumet Park's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Calumet Park, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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