Henry, IL is safer than most U.S. cities, and earns an A+ PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Henry, IL shows violent crime at 86.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 86.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% 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
86.7/100K violent
86.7/100K property
-75% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Henry, IL
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 50.0% of the 4 Part I offenses reported in Henry for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 38.8 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.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Henry reported 2 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 2,308. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
Henry's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Henry's 86.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Hartford (87.2), Hickory Hills (87.6), Bethalto (87.7), Farmington (87.9). 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 50.0% of reported property offenses in Henry, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (1) and motor vehicle theft (0). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
Henry sits mid-pack among comparable Illinois cities
At 86.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Henry ranks 281 of 506 — above 225 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -14.0% against the cohort median of 100.7. 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 91.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 86.7 in 2024 (-5.4%). The highest observed value was 173.3 in 2022 and the lowest 86.7 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Henry's FBI UCR Table 8 municipal row keeps violent and property totals in a closer balance. Per-100,000 rates use the reporting-year population on that row; incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. A citywide figure rarely describes any single neighbourhood inside the municipal boundary.
Based on 2 reported violent incidents in a population of 2,308. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
On a small municipal row, small denominators make rates sensitive to a handful of incidents. Figures are reported totals, not neighbourhood advice.
Henry's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 1.8 Census sq mi, Henry logged 1.1 property and 1.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Henry leans on rape at 50% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,750.
Violent offenses are 50% of the municipal total - a violence-heavy book for a small municipal.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.8 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
-71.4%
303.3 → 86.7/100K
Violent Crime Rate
-33.3%
130 → 86.7/100K
Henry's 2024 offense mix (violent and property)
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
2
86.7
1711
Burglary
1
43.3
-
Larceny-Theft
1
43.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
0
0
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
2
86.7
352
Rape
2
86.7
-
Murder
0
0
-
Robbery
0
0
-
Aggravated Assault
0
0
-
Henry Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Henry violent crime rate trend
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
Violent crime rate (2024)
86.7/100K↓33.3%vs 2023
Henry property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Property crime rate (2024)
86.7/100K↓71.4%vs 2023
Year
Coverage
Population
Violent Rate
Property Rate
Total Crimes
2020
Comparable
2,183
91.6
687.1
17
2021
Comparable
2,208
90.6
407.6
11
2022
Comparable
2,308
173.3
389.9
13
2023
Comparable
2,308
130
303.3
10
2024
Comparable
2,308
86.7
86.7
4
Henry Police Department
Reporting agency for Henry NIBRS-participating
Henry Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Henry's 4 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Illinois
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Henry in population. Their populations run from 2,233 to 2,368, against 2,308 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Henry reported 2 violent crimes and 2 property crimes, for a total of 4 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Henry?
From 2023 to 2024, Henry's violent crime rate decreased by 33.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 71.4%.
What is the most common crime in Henry?
The most common crime type in Henry is rape, accounting for 50.0% of all reported crimes (2 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Henry's FBI UCR Table 8 row (2024) is the only source for the rates above.
With a small population base, per-100,000 rates amplify sparse counts. Incomplete submissions are excluded from rankings. See FBI.gov UCR for the raw Table 8 file.
Disclaimer (small municipal): small-base rates are especially easy to misread. Informational only - not advice. Source: FBI UCR Program.