East Peoria, IL has a C safety grade (53/100) with a violent crime rate of 265 per 100,000, 25% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
East Peoria (21,873 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
East Peoria, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 25% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, East Peoria, IL shows violent crime at 265.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,363.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 25% 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 40.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 265.2 in 2024 (+561.3%). The highest observed value was 318.3 in 2023 and the lowest 40.1 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 East Peoria's 265.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Aurora (266.0), Elgin (266.7), St. Anne (267.9), Clinton (261.8). 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 265.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, East Peoria ranks 105 of 506 — above 401 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +166.1% 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 East Peoria'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 20.7 Census sq mi, East Peoria logged 25 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
East Peoria's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (68% of 575 offenses; mix index 5,027).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
East Peoria offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.7 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 | 517 | 2363.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 391 | 1787.6 |
| Burglary | 105 | 480 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 21 | 96 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 58 | 265.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 41 | 187.4 |
| Rape | 13 | 59.4 |
| Robbery | 3 | 13.7 |
| Murder | 1 | 4.6 |
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 | 22,446 | 40.1 | 396.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 22,235 | 310.3 | 2118.3 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 22,130 | 293.7 | 2679.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 21,990 | 318.3 | 2792.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 21,873 | 265.2 | 2363.6 |
East Peoria Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind East Peoria's 575 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 East Peoria in population. Their populations run from 21,108 to 22,530, against 21,873 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
East Peoria sits at 265.2/100K violent (grade C); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
East Peoria at 265.2/100K violent and 2,363.6/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
265.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,363.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, East Peoria reported 58 violent crimes and 517 property crimes, for a total of 575 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, East Peoria's violent crime rate decreased by 16.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 15.3%.
The most common crime type in East Peoria is larceny-theft, accounting for 68.0% of all reported crimes (391 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: East Peoria 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 East Peoria's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 East Peoria, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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