Lombard, IL has a B safety grade (74/100) with a violent crime rate of 117 per 100,000, 67% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Lombard (43,576 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
Lombard, IL carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 67% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Lombard, IL shows violent crime at 117 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,599.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 67% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 76.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 117.0 in 2024 (+52.8%). The highest observed value was 130.7 in 2023 and the lowest 11.5 in 2022. 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 Lombard's 117.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Harwood Heights (117.6), Lake Villa (116.4), Montgomery (115.6), Stockton (118.8). 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 84.8% of reported property offenses in Lombard, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (79) and motor vehicle theft (27). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.8% of the 748 Part I offenses reported in Lombard for 2024, against a median of 11.3% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 4.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 117.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Lombard ranks 233 of 506 — above 273 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +17.4% 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 Lombard'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 10.2 Census sq mi, Lombard logged 68.5 property and 5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Lombard's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (79% of 748 offenses; mix index 6,384).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Lombard offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.2 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 697 | 1599.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 591 | 1356.3 |
| Burglary | 79 | 181.3 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 27 | 62 |
| Arson | 5 | 11.5 |
| Violent Crime | 51 | 117 |
| Aggravated Assault | 23 | 52.8 |
| Rape | 17 | 39 |
| Robbery | 11 | 25.2 |
| 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 · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 44,392 | 76.6 | 1676 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 44,007 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 43,447 | 11.5 | 216.4 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 43,596 | 130.7 | 1614.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 43,576 | 117 | 1599.5 |
Lombard Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Lombard's 748 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 Lombard in population. Their populations run from 40,208 to 46,371, against 43,576 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Lombard sits at 117/100K violent (grade B); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Lombard at 117/100K violent and 1,599.5/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
117/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,599.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-10.5% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Lombard reported 51 violent crimes and 697 property crimes, for a total of 748 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Lombard's violent crime rate decreased by 10.5%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.9%.
The most common crime type in Lombard is larceny-theft, accounting for 79.0% of all reported crimes (591 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Lombard 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 Lombard's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Lombard, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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