Monee, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a B PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 22% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Monee, IL shows violent crime at 275 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,394.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% 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
275/100K violent
1394.6/100K property
-22% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Monee, IL
Small-count caution
The violent-crime count is small enough that the derived rate is unstable
Monee reported 14 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 5,091. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
Monee's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Monee's 275.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Tilton (275.8), Wood River (274.1), North Riverside (272.8), Metropolis (279.4). 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
Monee reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois cities
At 275.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Monee ranks 98 of 506 — above 408 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +175.9% 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 higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 197.9 per 100,000 in 2020 to 275.0 in 2024 (+39.0%). The highest observed value was 275.0 in 2024 and the lowest 79.7 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 16.5% of the 85 Part I offenses reported in Monee for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 5.3 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.
Property counts dominate Monee'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.
Based on 14 reported violent incidents in a population of 5,091. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Monee's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.6 Census sq mi, Monee logged 15.4 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Monee's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (60% of 85 offenses; mix index 4,073).
Violent offenses are 16% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.6 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
+74.3%
157.8 → 275/100K
Property Crime Rate
-42.5%
2426.5 → 1394.6/100K
Property offenses lead Monee's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
vs IL
Property Crime
71
1394.6
1711
1664.8
Larceny-Theft
51
1001.8
-
-
Burglary
14
275
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
6
117.9
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
14
275
352
277.5
Aggravated Assault
10
196.4
-
-
Rape
3
58.9
-
-
Robbery
1
19.6
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Monee Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Monee property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averagesRead the chart as a list
Monee: 275 violent, 1395 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Berkeley: 80 violent, 618 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Pana: 60 violent, 1159 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Pinckneyville: 80 violent, 302 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Colona: 61 violent, 847 property per 100,000 (grade A)
South Barrington: 0 violent, 769 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Wonder Lake: 19 violent, 495 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Milan: 426 violent, 1806 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Posen: 247 violent, 2225 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Monee Police Department
Reporting agency for Monee NIBRS-participating
Monee Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Monee's 85 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Illinois
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In 2024, Monee reported 14 violent crimes and 71 property crimes, for a total of 85 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Monee?
From 2023 to 2024, Monee's violent crime rate increased by 74.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 42.5%.
What is the most common crime in Monee?
The most common crime type in Monee is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.0% of all reported crimes (51 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Monee is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.