Fairview Heights, IL has a D safety grade (33/100) with a violent crime rate of 408 per 100,000, 16% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Fairview Heights (15,948 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
Fairview Heights, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 16% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Fairview Heights, IL shows violent crime at 407.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,028.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 16% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D 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 228.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 407.6 in 2024 (+78.6%). The highest observed value was 407.6 in 2024 and the lowest 228.2 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 407.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Fairview Heights ranks 49 of 506 — above 457 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +308.9% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Fairview Heights's 407.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sauk Village (406.0), Forest Park (416.0), DeKalb (393.0), Lansing (391.8). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 83.4% of reported property offenses in Fairview Heights, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (48) and motor vehicle theft (32). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Fairview Heights'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 11.5 Census sq mi, Fairview Heights logged 42.1 property and 5.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Fairview Heights's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (74% of 548 offenses; mix index 5,601).
Violent offenses are only 12% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Fairview Heights offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (11.5 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 483 | 3028.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 403 | 2527 |
| Burglary | 48 | 301 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 32 | 200.7 |
| Arson | 2 | 12.5 |
| Violent Crime | 65 | 407.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 48 | 301 |
| Rape | 12 | 75.2 |
| Robbery | 4 | 25.1 |
| Murder | 1 | 6.3 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,217 | 228.2 | 3144.8 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,034 | 274.4 | 2974.9 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 16,270 | 313.5 | 3146.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 16,156 | 328.1 | 3181.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,948 | 407.6 | 3028.6 |
Fairview Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Fairview Heights's 548 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 Fairview Heights in population. Their populations run from 15,122 to 16,464, against 15,948 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Fairview Heights sits at 407.6/100K violent (grade D); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Fairview Heights at 407.6/100K violent and 3,028.6/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
407.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
3,028.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Fairview Heights reported 65 violent crimes and 483 property crimes, for a total of 548 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Fairview Heights's violent crime rate increased by 24.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 4.8%.
The most common crime type in Fairview Heights is larceny-theft, accounting for 73.5% of all reported crimes (403 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Fairview Heights 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 Fairview Heights's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Fairview Heights, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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