Ellis Grove, IL is among the safest cities in the country, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Ellis Grove, IL shows violent crime at 0 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 0 per 100,000. PlainCrime assigns grade A+ from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
A+ safety grade
0/100K violent
0/100K property
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Ellis Grove, IL
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Ellis Grove reported 0 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 325. 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.
Position in the state cohort
Ellis Grove reported a lower violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois cities
At 0.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Ellis Grove ranks 418 of 506 — above 0 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -100.0% against the cohort median of 100.7. 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
Ellis Grove's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Ellis Grove's 0.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Albers (0.0), Annawan (0.0), Ashland (0.0), Assumption (0.0). 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.
Property counts dominate Ellis Grove'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 0 reported violent incidents in a population of 325. 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.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Ellis Grove's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 0.5 Census sq mi, Ellis Grove logged 0 property and 0 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (0.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Year-over-Year Change (2023 to 2024)
Property offenses lead Ellis Grove's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs IL
Property Crime
0
0
1711
1664.8
Burglary
0
0
-
-
Larceny-Theft
0
0
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
0
0
352
277.5
Murder
0
0
-
-
Rape
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Aggravated Assault
0
0
-
-
Ellis Grove Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Ellis Grove property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Ellis Grove: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Grantfork: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Ruma: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
McCook: 858 violent, 19743 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Cherry: 0 violent, 235 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Indianola: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Henning: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Fithian: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Sidell: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Ellis Grove Police Department
Reporting agency for Ellis Grove NIBRS-participating
Ellis Grove Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Ellis Grove's 0 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Illinois
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Ellis Grove in population. Their populations run from 201 to 469, against 325 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Ellis Grove reported 0 violent crimes and 0 property crimes, for a total of 0 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Ellis Grove?
From 2023 to 2024, Ellis Grove's violent crime rate data is unavailable.
Micro-municipal read: Ellis Grove's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Ellis Grove, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.