Crete, IL has a A safety grade (75/100) with a violent crime rate of 169 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Crete is a small municipal reporter (8,277 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Crete, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Crete, IL shows violent crime at 169.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 906.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% 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.
Small-count caution
Crete reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 8,277. 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Crete's 169.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lincoln (169.0), Elmwood Park (169.4), Sparta (168.5), Fairmount (170.1). 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 169.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Crete ranks 177 of 506 — above 329 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +69.7% 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 212.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 169.1 in 2024 (-20.4%). The highest observed value was 313.6 in 2023 and the lowest 63.2 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 15.7% of the 89 Part I offenses reported in Crete for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 4.5 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 counts dominate Crete'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 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 8,277. 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.
Across 9.4 Census sq mi, Crete logged 7.9 property and 1.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Crete leans on larceny-theft at 56% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,781.
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Crete offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.4 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 | 75 | 906.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 50 | 604.1 |
| Burglary | 19 | 229.6 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 6 | 72.5 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 14 | 169.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 9 | 108.7 |
| Robbery | 4 | 48.3 |
| Rape | 1 | 12.1 |
| 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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 7,996 | 212.6 | 963 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 7,906 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 8,371 | 167.2 | 860.1 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 8,290 | 313.6 | 1519.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 8,277 | 169.1 | 906.1 |
Crete Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Crete's 89 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 Crete in population. Their populations run from 8,150 to 8,504, against 8,277 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Crete sits at 169.1/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Crete reported 14 violent crimes and 75 property crimes, for a total of 89 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Crete's violent crime rate decreased by 46.1%, and the property crime rate decreased by 40.4%.
The most common crime type in Crete is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.2% of all reported crimes (50 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Crete 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 Crete's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Crete, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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