Coal City, IL has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 103 per 100,000, 71% below the national average.
Coal City is a small municipal reporter (5,813 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IL and U.S. context.
Coal City, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 71% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Coal City, IL shows violent crime at 103.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 361.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 71% 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.
The verdict
Coal City earns an A safety grade: violent crime runs 71% below the U.S. average, placing it safer than most U.S. cities.
Based on 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,813. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-count caution
Coal City reported 6 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,813. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 55.8 per 100,000 in 2020 to 103.2 in 2024 (+85.0%). The highest observed value was 103.2 in 2024 and the lowest 34.5 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 Coal City's 103.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chatham (103.0), Wood Dale (102.3), Crystal Lake (104.7), Mokena (101.4). 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 22.2% of the 27 Part I offenses reported in Coal City for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 11.0 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 103.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Coal City ranks 249 of 506 — above 257 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +3.6% 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.
Property counts dominate Coal City'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.
Based on 6 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,813. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 21 | 361.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 16 | 275.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 4 | 68.8 |
| Burglary | 1 | 17.2 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 6 | 103.2 |
| Rape | 3 | 51.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 3 | 51.6 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 5,378 | 55.8 | 1320.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 5,317 | 56.4 | 451.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 5,800 | 34.5 | 465.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 5,762 | 86.8 | 503.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 5,813 | 103.2 | 361.3 |
Coal City's crime figures on this page originate from Coal City Police Department's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Coal City in population. Their populations run from 5,653 to 5,934, against 5,813 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Illinois cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Coal City's 103.2/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Small-city read: Coal City 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 Coal City's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Coal City, 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. Coal City is scored as a small-city UCR reporter (5,813 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.