Hazel Crest, IL has a F safety grade (23/100) with a violent crime rate of 540 per 100,000, 53% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hazel Crest (12,588 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
Hazel Crest, IL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 53% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hazel Crest, IL shows violent crime at 540.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,693 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 53% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 325.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 540.2 in 2024 (+65.9%). The highest observed value was 809.4 in 2022 and the lowest 325.6 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 540.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hazel Crest ranks 27 of 506 — above 479 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +442.0% 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 Hazel Crest's 540.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Chicago (539.8), Rock Island (544.1), Urbana (544.4), Belleville (532.0). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 51.3% of reported property offenses in Hazel Crest, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (79) and motor vehicle theft (86). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 16.7% of the 407 Part I offenses reported in Hazel Crest for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 5.5 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.
Property counts dominate Hazel Crest'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 3.4 Census sq mi, Hazel Crest logged 99.8 property and 20 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hazel Crest leans on larceny-theft at 43% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,775.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Hazel Crest offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (3.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 339 | 2693 |
| Larceny-Theft | 174 | 1382.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 86 | 683.2 |
| Burglary | 79 | 627.6 |
| Arson | 3 | 23.8 |
| Violent Crime | 68 | 540.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 40 | 317.8 |
| Robbery | 19 | 150.9 |
| Rape | 9 | 71.5 |
| Murder | 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.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 13,515 | 325.6 | 3596 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 13,385 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,849 | 809.4 | 3572.3 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,681 | 512.6 | 3043.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,588 | 540.2 | 2693 |
Hazel Crest Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hazel Crest's 407 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Hazel Crest in population. Their populations run from 12,187 to 13,014, against 12,588 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hazel Crest sits at 540.2/100K violent (grade F); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hazel Crest at 540.2/100K violent and 2,693/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
540.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,693/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Hazel Crest reported 68 violent crimes and 339 property crimes, for a total of 407 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hazel Crest's violent crime rate increased by 5.4%, and the property crime rate decreased by 11.5%.
The most common crime type in Hazel Crest is larceny-theft, accounting for 42.8% of all reported crimes (174 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hazel Crest 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 Hazel Crest's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hazel Crest, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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