Hodgkins, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 41% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hodgkins, IL shows violent crime at 206.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 13,007.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 41% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
206.5/100K violent
13007.6/100K property
-41% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Hodgkins, IL
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 101.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 206.5 in 2024 (+104.3%). The highest observed value was 506.6 in 2021 and the lowest 101.1 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Hodgkins reported 3 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 1,453. 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
Hodgkins's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hodgkins's 206.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Taylorville (206.5), Skokie (204.5), Hillsboro (208.9), Rockdale (204.0). 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.
Position in the state cohort
Hodgkins sits mid-pack among comparable Illinois cities
At 206.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hodgkins ranks 137 of 506 — above 368 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +107.2% 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.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 1.6% of the 192 Part I offenses reported in Hodgkins for 2024, against a median of 11.3% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 9.7 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 79.4% of reported property offenses in Hodgkins, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (9) and motor vehicle theft (30). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Hodgkins'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.
Based on 3 reported violent incidents in a population of 1,453. 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.
Hodgkins's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.7 Census sq mi, Hodgkins logged 69.7 property and 1.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hodgkins's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (78% of 192 offenses; mix index 6,372).
Violent offenses are only 2% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+24.7%
10432.4 → 13007.6/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+0.3%
205.9 → 206.5/100K
Property offenses lead Hodgkins's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IL
vs US avg
Property Crime
189
13007.6
1664.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
150
10323.5
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
30
2064.7
-
-
Burglary
9
619.4
-
-
Arson
1
68.8
-
-
Violent Crime
3
206.5
277.5
352
Rape
3
206.5
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Robbery
0
0
-
-
Aggravated Assault
0
0
-
-
Hodgkins Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Hodgkins property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Hodgkins: 207 violent, 13008 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Ladd: 0 violent, 138 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Lanark: 137 violent, 137 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Manito: 69 violent, 206 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Mount Carroll: 350 violent, 350 property per 100,000 (grade B)
North Pekin: 140 violent, 2731 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Grayville: 203 violent, 810 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Waterman: 0 violent, 0 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Maple Park: 0 violent, 268 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Hodgkins Police Department
Reporting agency for Hodgkins NIBRS-participating
Hodgkins Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hodgkins's 192 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 Hodgkins in population. Their populations run from 1,417 to 1,494, against 1,453 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Hodgkins reported 3 violent crimes and 189 property crimes, for a total of 192 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Hodgkins?
From 2023 to 2024, Hodgkins's violent crime rate increased by 0.3%, and the property crime rate increased by 24.7%.
What is the most common crime in Hodgkins?
The most common crime type in Hodgkins is larceny-theft, accounting for 78.1% of all reported crimes (150 incidents in 2024).
Micro-municipal read: Hodgkins'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hodgkins, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.