Harvey, IL has a F safety grade (17/100) with a violent crime rate of 706 per 100,000, 101% above the national average.
Harvey (19,121 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then IL and national benchmarks.
Harvey, IL carries a PlainCrime F safety grade with violent crime 101% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Harvey, IL shows violent crime at 706 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,511.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 101% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
The verdict
Harvey earns an F safety grade: violent crime runs 101% above the U.S. average, placing it among the highest-crime cities in the country.
2022–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 71.8 per 100,000 in 2022 to 706.0 in 2024 (+883.1%). The highest observed value was 1084.9 in 2023 and the lowest 71.8 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 706.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Harvey ranks 15 of 506 — above 491 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +608.4% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 31.8% of the 424 Part I offenses reported in Harvey for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 20.6 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Harvey's 706.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Riverdale (709.4), Centralia (663.9), Havana (754.0), Granite City (617.8). 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 44.6% of reported property offenses in Harvey, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (54) and motor vehicle theft (106). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Harvey'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 | 289 | 1511.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 129 | 674.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 106 | 554.4 |
| Burglary | 54 | 282.4 |
| Arson | 4 | 20.9 |
| Violent Crime | 135 | 706 |
| Aggravated Assault | 80 | 418.4 |
| Robbery | 39 | 204 |
| Rape | 15 | 78.4 |
| Murder | 1 | 5.2 |
The chart omits 2020, 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2022-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Insufficient reporting | 24,313 | - | - |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 23,995 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 19,494 | 71.8 | 297.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 19,264 | 1084.9 | 3145.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,121 | 706 | 1511.4 |
Harvey's crime figures on this page originate from Harvey 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 Harvey in population. Their populations run from 18,718 to 19,726, against 19,121 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
These Illinois cities report the closest violent-crime rates to Harvey's 706/100K (same FBI UCR vintage rules; size peers above are excluded so the two lists stay distinct).
Mid-size read: Harvey 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 Harvey's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Harvey, 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. Harvey is scored in the mid-size municipal band (19,121 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.