Machesney Park, IL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 9% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Machesney Park, IL shows violent crime at 319.6 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,535.7 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 9% 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
319.6/100K violent
1535.7/100K property
-9% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Machesney Park, IL
Comparable rate records
Machesney Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Machesney Park's 319.6 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Sterling (319.4), Oak Park (323.5), Steger (315.6), East Moline (315.0). 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
Machesney Park reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois cities
At 319.6 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Machesney Park ranks 81 of 506 — above 425 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +220.6% 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
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 17.2% of the 418 Part I offenses reported in Machesney Park for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 6.0 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 83.5% of reported property offenses in Machesney Park, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (36) and motor vehicle theft (21). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 283.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 319.6 in 2024 (+12.8%). The highest observed value was 319.6 in 2024 and the lowest 177.0 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Machesney 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.
Machesney Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 12.7 Census sq mi, Machesney Park logged 27.3 property and 5.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Machesney Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (69% of 418 offenses; mix index 5,056).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+11.4%
286.8 → 319.6/100K
Property Crime Rate
+4.5%
1469.4 → 1535.7/100K
Property offenses lead Machesney Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
346
1535.7
1711
Larceny-Theft
289
1282.7
-
Burglary
36
159.8
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
21
93.2
-
Arson
0
0
-
Violent Crime
72
319.6
352
Aggravated Assault
53
235.2
-
Rape
16
71
-
Robbery
3
13.3
-
Murder
0
0
-
Machesney Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Machesney Park 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 averages
Machesney Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Machesney Park NIBRS-participating
Machesney Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Machesney Park's 418 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 Machesney Park in population. Their populations run from 21,873 to 23,312, against 22,530 here. Or use our
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Machesney Park at 319.6/100K violent and 1,535.7/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Machesney Park reported 72 violent crimes and 346 property crimes, for a total of 418 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Machesney Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Machesney Park's violent crime rate increased by 11.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 4.5%.
What is the most common crime in Machesney Park?
The most common crime type in Machesney Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 69.1% of all reported crimes (289 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Machesney 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Machesney Park, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.