Carbondale, IL has a F safety grade (0/100) with a violent crime rate of 1005 per 100,000, 185% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Carbondale (21,494 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
Carbondale, IL carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 185% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Carbondale, IL shows violent crime at 1,004.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,684.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 185% 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 1004.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Carbondale ranks 7 of 506 — above 499 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +908.3% 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 Carbondale's 1004.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Calumet Park (986.9), Alton (963.4), Rockford (1080.0), Springfield (901.2). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 21.4% of the 1,008 Part I offenses reported in Carbondale for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 10.2 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 60.9% of reported property offenses in Carbondale, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (235) 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
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 954.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 1004.9 in 2024 (+5.3%). The highest observed value was 1004.9 in 2024 and the lowest 780.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Carbondale'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 17.5 Census sq mi, Carbondale logged 45.3 property and 12.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Carbondale leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,108.
Violent offenses are 21% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Carbondale offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (17.5 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 | 792 | 3684.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 482 | 2242.5 |
| Burglary | 235 | 1093.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 75 | 348.9 |
| Arson | 12 | 55.8 |
| Violent Crime | 216 | 1004.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 139 | 646.7 |
| Rape | 51 | 237.3 |
| Robbery | 24 | 111.7 |
| Murder | 2 | 9.3 |
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 · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 24,933 | 954.6 | 3453.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 24,897 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 21,612 | 786.6 | 3229.7 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,659 | 780.3 | 3425.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,494 | 1004.9 | 3684.7 |
Carbondale Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Carbondale's 1,008 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 Carbondale in population. Their populations run from 20,637 to 22,280, against 21,494 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Carbondale sits at 1,004.9/100K violent (grade F); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Carbondale at 1,004.9/100K violent and 3,684.7/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
1,004.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,684.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Carbondale reported 216 violent crimes and 792 property crimes, for a total of 1,008 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Carbondale's violent crime rate increased by 28.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.6%.
The most common crime type in Carbondale is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.8% of all reported crimes (482 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Carbondale 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 Carbondale's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Carbondale, 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. Carbondale is scored in the mid-size municipal band (21,494 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.