Elmwood Park, IL has a B safety grade (73/100) with a violent crime rate of 169 per 100,000, 52% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Elmwood Park (23,028 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 2026-08-24
Elmwood Park, IL carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 52% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Elmwood Park, IL shows violent crime at 169.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,107.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 52% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Elmwood Park's 169.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Crete (169.1), Lincoln (169.0), Fairmount (170.1), Sparta (168.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 216.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 169.4 in 2024 (-21.8%). The highest observed value was 216.6 in 2020 and the lowest 67.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 169.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Elmwood Park ranks 176 of 506 — above 330 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +69.9% 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 Elmwood Park'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.
Elmwood Park leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,821.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Elmwood Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (when validated); 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 | 255 | 1107.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 169 | 733.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 44 | 191.1 |
| Burglary | 42 | 182.4 |
| Arson | 1 | 4.3 |
| Violent Crime | 39 | 169.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 26 | 112.9 |
| Robbery | 7 | 30.4 |
| Rape | 6 | 26.1 |
| 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 | 24,011 | 216.6 | 1216.1 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 23,699 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,485 | 140.5 | 1230.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,202 | 120.7 | 1077.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,028 | 169.4 | 1107.3 |
Elmwood Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Elmwood Park's 294 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 Elmwood Park in population. Their populations run from 22,489 to 23,599, against 23,028 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Elmwood Park sits at 169.4/100K violent (grade B); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Elmwood Park at 169.4/100K violent and 1,107.3/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
169.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,107.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Elmwood Park reported 39 violent crimes and 255 property crimes, for a total of 294 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Elmwood Park's violent crime rate increased by 40.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 2.8%.
The most common crime type in Elmwood Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 57.5% of all reported crimes (169 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Elmwood Park 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 Elmwood Park's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Elmwood Park, 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. Elmwood Park is scored in the mid-size municipal band (23,028 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.