Hanover Park, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 64% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hanover Park, IL shows violent crime at 125.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 416.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 64% below the U.S. average. 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
125.8/100K violent
416.4/100K property
-64% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hanover Park, IL
Comparable rate records
Hanover Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hanover Park's 125.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Carlyle (125.8), Carrier Mills (126.2), Bensenville (126.2), Northlake (124.0). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.2% of the 194 Part I offenses reported in Hanover Park for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 12.0 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.
Position in the state cohort
Hanover Park sits mid-pack among comparable Illinois cities
At 125.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hanover Park ranks 224 of 506 — above 282 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +26.2% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 128.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 125.8 in 2024 (-2.1%). The highest observed value was 175.5 in 2023 and the lowest 2.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Hanover 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.
Hanover Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 6.4 Census sq mi, Hanover Park logged 23.2 property and 7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hanover Park leans on larceny-theft at 52% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,330.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (6.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-28.3%
175.5 → 125.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
-20.5%
523.7 → 416.4/100K
Property offenses lead Hanover Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs IL
Property Crime
149
416.4
1711
1664.8
Larceny-Theft
101
282.3
-
-
Burglary
30
83.8
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
18
50.3
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
45
125.8
352
277.5
Aggravated Assault
32
89.4
-
-
Robbery
7
19.6
-
-
Rape
6
16.8
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Hanover Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Hanover Park property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Hanover Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Hanover Park NIBRS-participating
Hanover Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hanover Park's 194 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Illinois
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Hanover Park in population. Their populations run from 33,610 to 37,893, against 35,779 here. Or use our
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Hanover Park at 125.8/100K violent and 416.4/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Hanover Park reported 45 violent crimes and 149 property crimes, for a total of 194 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hanover Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Hanover Park's violent crime rate decreased by 28.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 20.5%.
What is the most common crime in Hanover Park?
The most common crime type in Hanover Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 52.1% of all reported crimes (101 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hanover 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hanover Park, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.