Morris, IL has a C safety grade (55/100) with a violent crime rate of 315 per 100,000, 11% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Morris (14,608 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
Morris, IL carries a PlainCrime C safety grade with violent crime 11% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Morris, IL shows violent crime at 314.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,512.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 11% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 144.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 314.9 in 2024 (+117.8%). The highest observed value was 314.9 in 2024 and the lowest 144.6 in 2020. 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 Morris's 314.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are East Moline (315.0), Steger (315.6), Sterling (319.4), Machesney Park (319.6). 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 314.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Morris ranks 85 of 506 — above 421 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +216.0% 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 85.5% of reported property offenses in Morris, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (12). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 17.2% of the 267 Part I offenses reported in Morris 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 counts dominate Morris'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 12.4 Census sq mi, Morris logged 17.8 property and 3.7 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Morris's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 267 offenses; mix index 5,241).
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Morris offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (12.4 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 | 221 | 1512.9 |
| Larceny-Theft | 189 | 1293.8 |
| Burglary | 20 | 136.9 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 82.1 |
| Arson | 1 | 6.8 |
| Violent Crime | 46 | 314.9 |
| Aggravated Assault | 32 | 219.1 |
| Rape | 7 | 47.9 |
| Robbery | 4 | 27.4 |
| Murder | 3 | 20.5 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 15,216 | 144.6 | 2241.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 15,321 | 163.2 | 1077 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 14,511 | 193 | 1385.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 14,438 | 145.4 | 1530.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 14,608 | 314.9 | 1512.9 |
Morris Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Morris's 267 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 Morris in population. Their populations run from 14,327 to 15,043, against 14,608 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Morris sits at 314.9/100K violent (grade C); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Morris at 314.9/100K violent and 1,512.9/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
314.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,512.9/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Morris reported 46 violent crimes and 221 property crimes, for a total of 267 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Morris's violent crime rate increased by 116.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 1.2%.
The most common crime type in Morris is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.8% of all reported crimes (189 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Morris 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 Morris's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Morris, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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