Fairmont City, IL has a C safety grade (50/100) with a violent crime rate of 466 per 100,000, 32% above the national average.
Fairmont City's UCR row covers a small municipal population (2,148). Rates below are per 100,000 and sit next to IL and U.S. averages.
Fairmont City, IL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 32% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fairmont City, IL shows violent crime at 465.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 465.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 32% above 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.
The verdict
Fairmont City earns a C safety grade: violent crime runs 32% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Based on 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,148. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 123.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 465.5 in 2024 (+277.7%). The highest observed value was 465.5 in 2024 and the lowest 0.0 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 50.0% of the 20 Part I offenses reported in Fairmont City for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 38.8 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.
Small-count caution
Fairmont City reported 10 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,148. 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
At 465.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fairmont City ranks 38 of 506 — above 468 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +367.1% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fairmont City's 465.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Kansas (468.0), Summit (468.7), Marion (468.7), Zion (452.9). 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 40.0% of reported property offenses in Fairmont City, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (5) and motor vehicle theft (1). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Fairmont City's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 10 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,148. 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 10 | 465.5 |
| Burglary | 5 | 232.8 |
| Larceny-Theft | 4 | 186.2 |
| Arson | 2 | 93.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 1 | 46.6 |
| Violent Crime | 10 | 465.5 |
| Aggravated Assault | 10 | 465.5 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 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.
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 2,434 | 123.3 | 123.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 2,419 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 2,211 | 316.6 | 1311.6 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 2,177 | 321.5 | 459.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 2,148 | 465.5 | 465.5 |
Fairmont City's crime figures on this page originate from Fairmont 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 Fairmont City in population. Their populations run from 2,067 to 2,233, against 2,148 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Illinois cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Fairmont City's 465.5/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Micro-municipal read: Fairmont City'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.
Micro-municipal rate methodology for how Fairmont City's small municipal row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fairmont City, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
Bulk download: city crime dataset (CSV/JSON)
Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Fairmont City is scored as a small municipal UCR reporter (2,148 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.