Loves Park, IL has a C safety grade (52/100) with a violent crime rate of 356 per 100,000, 1% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Loves Park (23,312 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
Loves Park, IL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 1% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Loves Park, IL shows violent crime at 356 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,381.3 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 1% above 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 356.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Loves Park ranks 67 of 506 — above 439 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +257.2% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Loves Park's 356.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Charleston (359.7), Joliet (350.0), Mount Carroll (349.7), Freeport (362.6). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 20.5% of the 405 Part I offenses reported in Loves Park for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 9.3 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 369.1 per 100,000 in 2020 to 356.0 in 2024 (-3.5%). The highest observed value was 369.1 in 2020 and the lowest 283.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Loves Park'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 16.3 Census sq mi, Loves Park logged 19.7 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Loves Park leans on larceny-theft at 57% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,743.
Violent offenses are 20% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Loves Park offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (16.3 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 | 322 | 1381.3 |
| Larceny-Theft | 230 | 986.6 |
| Burglary | 63 | 270.2 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 29 | 124.4 |
| Arson | 3 | 12.9 |
| Violent Crime | 83 | 356 |
| Aggravated Assault | 56 | 240.2 |
| Rape | 23 | 98.7 |
| Robbery | 4 | 17.2 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 23,303 | 369.1 | 1450.5 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 23,323 | 283 | 1333.4 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 23,222 | 344.5 | 1515.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 23,348 | 346.9 | 1207.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 23,312 | 356 | 1381.3 |
Loves Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Loves Park's 405 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 Loves Park in population. Their populations run from 22,888 to 23,785, against 23,312 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Loves Park sits at 356/100K violent (grade C); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Loves Park at 356/100K violent and 1,381.3/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
356/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,381.3/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Loves Park reported 83 violent crimes and 322 property crimes, for a total of 405 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Loves Park's violent crime rate increased by 2.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 14.4%.
The most common crime type in Loves Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 56.8% of all reported crimes (230 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Loves Park 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 Loves Park's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Loves Park, 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. Loves Park is scored in the mid-size municipal band (23,312 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.