Hoffman Estates, IL has a A safety grade (76/100) with a violent crime rate of 150 per 100,000, 58% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Hoffman Estates (49,467 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 2026-08-24
Hoffman Estates, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 58% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Hoffman Estates, IL shows violent crime at 149.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 992.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 58% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 76.7 per 100,000 in 2020 to 149.6 in 2024 (+94.9%). The highest observed value was 149.6 in 2024 and the lowest 76.7 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Hoffman Estates's 149.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Greenup (149.9), Belvidere (150.2), Countryside (148.4), Glenview (151.0). 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
At 149.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Hoffman Estates ranks 199 of 506 — above 307 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +50.1% 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.
Property counts dominate Hoffman Estates'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 20.5 Census sq mi, Hoffman Estates logged 23.9 property and 3.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Hoffman Estates leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,661.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Hoffman Estates offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (20.5 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 | 491 | 992.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 309 | 624.7 |
| Burglary | 123 | 248.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 59 | 119.3 |
| Arson | 2 | 4 |
| Violent Crime | 74 | 149.6 |
| Aggravated Assault | 49 | 99.1 |
| Rape | 18 | 36.4 |
| Robbery | 7 | 14.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 50,821 | 76.7 | 617.9 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 50,353 | 85.4 | 542.2 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 50,385 | 99.2 | 976.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 49,843 | 138.4 | 930.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 49,467 | 149.6 | 992.6 |
Hoffman Estates Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Hoffman Estates's 565 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Hoffman Estates in population. Their populations run from 46,371 to 53,523, against 49,467 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Hoffman Estates sits at 149.6/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Hoffman Estates at 149.6/100K violent and 992.6/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
149.6/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
992.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+8.1% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Hoffman Estates reported 74 violent crimes and 491 property crimes, for a total of 565 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Hoffman Estates's violent crime rate increased by 8.1%, and the property crime rate increased by 6.6%.
The most common crime type in Hoffman Estates is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.7% of all reported crimes (309 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Hoffman Estates 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 Hoffman Estates's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Hoffman Estates, 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. Hoffman Estates is scored in the mid-size municipal band (49,467 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.