Homewood, IL carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 47% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Homewood, IL shows violent crime at 186.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,091 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 47% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
186.1/100K violent
2091/100K property
-47% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Homewood, IL
Comparable rate records
Homewood's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Homewood's 186.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Ottawa (186.9), La Grange (187.4), West Chicago (184.2), South Elgin (188.4). 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
Homewood sits mid-pack among comparable Illinois cities
At 186.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Homewood ranks 160 of 506 — above 346 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +86.7% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 209.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 186.1 in 2024 (-11.1%). The highest observed value was 209.3 in 2020 and the lowest 171.7 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.2% of the 416 Part I offenses reported in Homewood for 2024, against a median of 11.3% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 3.1 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 Homewood'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.
Homewood's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 5.2 Census sq mi, Homewood logged 73.2 property and 6.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Homewood's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (64% of 416 offenses; mix index 4,505).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (5.2 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
-12.5%
2389 → 2091/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+3.9%
179.2 → 186.1/100K
Property offenses lead Homewood's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IL
vs US avg
Property Crime
382
2091
1664.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
266
1456
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
60
328.4
-
-
Burglary
56
306.5
-
-
Arson
1
5.5
-
-
Violent Crime
34
186.1
277.5
352
Aggravated Assault
16
87.6
-
-
Robbery
14
76.6
-
-
Rape
4
21.9
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Homewood Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Homewood property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Homewood Police Department
Reporting agency for Homewood NIBRS-participating
Homewood Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Homewood's 416 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 Homewood in population. Their populations run from 17,941 to 18,718, against 18,269 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Homewood reported 34 violent crimes and 382 property crimes, for a total of 416 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Homewood?
From 2023 to 2024, Homewood's violent crime rate increased by 3.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.5%.
What is the most common crime in Homewood?
The most common crime type in Homewood is larceny-theft, accounting for 63.9% of all reported crimes (266 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Homewood 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Homewood, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.