Forest Park, IL has a D safety grade (34/100) with a violent crime rate of 416 per 100,000, 18% above the national average.
Forest Park (13,460 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then IL and national benchmarks.
Forest Park, IL carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 18% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Forest Park, IL shows violent crime at 416 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,830.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 18% 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.
The verdict
Forest Park earns a D safety grade: violent crime runs 18% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
Position in the state cohort
At 416.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Forest Park ranks 48 of 506 — above 458 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +317.4% 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 Forest Park's 416.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fairview Heights (407.6), Milan (426.0), Sauk Village (406.0), Carmi (431.1). 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 798.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 416.0 in 2024 (-47.9%). The highest observed value was 798.4 in 2020 and the lowest 416.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Forest 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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 381 | 2830.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 266 | 1976.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 60 | 445.8 |
| Burglary | 55 | 408.6 |
| Arson | 2 | 14.9 |
| Violent Crime | 56 | 416 |
| Aggravated Assault | 20 | 148.6 |
| Robbery | 18 | 133.7 |
| Rape | 14 | 104 |
| Murder | 4 | 29.7 |
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 | 13,653 | 798.4 | 5449.4 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 13,472 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 13,740 | 480.3 | 3573.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 13,568 | 479.1 | 3125 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 13,460 | 416 | 2830.6 |
Forest Park's crime figures on this page originate from Forest Park 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 Forest Park in population. Their populations run from 12,942 to 13,870, against 13,460 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Illinois cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Forest Park's 416/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Forest 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 Forest Park's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Forest 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. Forest Park is scored in the mid-size municipal band (13,460 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.