Herrin, IL has a D safety grade (39/100) with a violent crime rate of 388 per 100,000, 10% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Herrin (12,125 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
Herrin, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a D PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 10% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Herrin, IL shows violent crime at 387.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,540.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 10% 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 387.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Herrin ranks 54 of 506 — above 452 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +288.9% 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 Herrin's 387.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Salem (386.4), Southern View (389.6), Cherry Valley (385.6), Hoopeston (384.9). 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
Larceny-theft is 54.9% of reported property offenses in Herrin, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (113) and motor vehicle theft (26). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 362.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 387.6 in 2024 (+7.1%). The highest observed value was 387.6 in 2024 and the lowest 32.9 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Herrin'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 9.7 Census sq mi, Herrin logged 31.8 property and 4.9 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Herrin leans on larceny-theft at 48% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,452.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Herrin offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (9.7 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 | 308 | 2540.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 169 | 1393.8 |
| Burglary | 113 | 932 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 26 | 214.4 |
| Arson | 4 | 33 |
| Violent Crime | 47 | 387.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 38 | 313.4 |
| Rape | 5 | 41.2 |
| Robbery | 4 | 33 |
| 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 · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 12,704 | 362.1 | 1763.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 12,633 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 12,174 | 32.9 | 90.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 12,135 | 329.6 | 2216.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 12,125 | 387.6 | 2540.2 |
Herrin Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Herrin's 355 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 Herrin in population. Their populations run from 11,748 to 12,588, against 12,125 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Herrin sits at 387.6/100K violent (grade D); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Herrin at 387.6/100K violent and 2,540.2/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
387.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
2,540.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Herrin reported 47 violent crimes and 308 property crimes, for a total of 355 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Herrin's violent crime rate increased by 17.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.6%.
The most common crime type in Herrin is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.6% of all reported crimes (169 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Herrin 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 Herrin's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Herrin, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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