Chicago Ridge, IL has a C safety grade (56/100) with a violent crime rate of 286 per 100,000, 19% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Chicago Ridge (13,658 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
Chicago Ridge, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 19% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Chicago Ridge, IL shows violent crime at 285.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,793.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 19% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 158.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 285.5 in 2024 (+80.2%). The highest observed value was 285.5 in 2024 and the lowest 158.4 in 2020. 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 Chicago Ridge's 285.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Park Forest (283.1), Alsip (289.8), Metropolis (279.4), Newton (292.5). 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 285.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Chicago Ridge ranks 94 of 506 — above 412 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +186.5% 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 Chicago Ridge'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 2.3 Census sq mi, Chicago Ridge logged 108 property and 17.2 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Chicago Ridge's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 284 offenses; mix index 4,475).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Chicago Ridge offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.3 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 | 245 | 1793.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 183 | 1339.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 35 | 256.3 |
| Burglary | 27 | 197.7 |
| Arson | 3 | 22 |
| Violent Crime | 39 | 285.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 22 | 161.1 |
| Rape | 11 | 80.5 |
| Robbery | 6 | 43.9 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
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 | 13,885 | 158.4 | 1418.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 13,722 | 167.6 | 1574.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,867 | 223.6 | 2127.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,770 | 196.1 | 1815.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,658 | 285.5 | 1793.8 |
Chicago Ridge Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Chicago Ridge's 284 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 Chicago Ridge in population. Their populations run from 13,014 to 14,146, against 13,658 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Chicago Ridge sits at 285.5/100K violent (grade C); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Chicago Ridge at 285.5/100K violent and 1,793.8/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
285.5/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,793.8/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Chicago Ridge reported 39 violent crimes and 245 property crimes, for a total of 284 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Chicago Ridge's violent crime rate increased by 45.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.2%.
The most common crime type in Chicago Ridge is larceny-theft, accounting for 64.4% of all reported crimes (183 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Chicago Ridge 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 Chicago Ridge's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Chicago Ridge, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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