Mount Prospect, IL has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 90 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 53,523 residents, Mount Prospect is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against IL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Mount Prospect, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 75% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Mount Prospect, IL shows violent crime at 89.7 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 887.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 75% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A 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 48.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 89.7 in 2024 (+84.8%). The highest observed value was 109.4 in 2023 and the lowest 48.5 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 Mount Prospect's 89.7 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Baden (89.7), Amboy (90.0), River Forest (90.3), Oak Forest (89.1). 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 89.7 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Mount Prospect ranks 271 of 506 — above 235 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -10.9% against the cohort median of 100.7. 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 Mount Prospect'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Across 10.7 Census sq mi, Mount Prospect logged 44.3 property and 4.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Mount Prospect's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 523 offenses; mix index 4,270).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Mount Prospect offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (10.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 475 | 887.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 319 | 596 |
| Burglary | 109 | 203.7 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 47 | 87.8 |
| Arson | 1 | 1.9 |
| Violent Crime | 48 | 89.7 |
| Aggravated Assault | 27 | 50.4 |
| Rape | 13 | 24.3 |
| Robbery | 7 | 13.1 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.9 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 53,570 | 48.5 | 741.1 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 53,125 | 48.9 | 623.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 54,477 | 69.8 | 961.9 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 53,932 | 109.4 | 1017.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 53,523 | 89.7 | 887.5 |
Mount Prospect Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Mount Prospect's 523 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 Mount Prospect in population. Their populations run from 51,306 to 57,218, against 53,523 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Mount Prospect sits at 89.7/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Mount Prospect at 89.7/100K violent and 887.5/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
89.7/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
887.5/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-18% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Mount Prospect reported 48 violent crimes and 475 property crimes, for a total of 523 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Mount Prospect's violent crime rate decreased by 18%, and the property crime rate decreased by 12.8%.
The most common crime type in Mount Prospect is larceny-theft, accounting for 61.0% of all reported crimes (319 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Mount Prospect's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Large-city rate methodology for how Mount Prospect's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Mount Prospect, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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