North Aurora, IL has a A safety grade (79/100) with a violent crime rate of 135 per 100,000, 62% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
North Aurora (19,276 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 2026-09-05
North Aurora, IL is close to the national middle for violent crime, and earns an A PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 62% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Aurora, IL shows violent crime at 134.9 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 871.6 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 62% 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.
Small-count caution
North Aurora reported 26 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 19,276. 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
The nearest comparable 2024 records to North Aurora's 134.9 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Mount Carmel (134.8), Forest View (134.2), Crestwood (136.5), Elwood (136.9). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 82.1% of reported property offenses in North Aurora, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (14). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 134.9 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Aurora ranks 213 of 506 — above 293 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +35.3% 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 counts dominate North Aurora'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 26 reported violent incidents in a population of 19,276. 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 7.6 Census sq mi, North Aurora logged 22.2 property and 3.4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Aurora's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 194 offenses; mix index 5,277).
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
North Aurora offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 168 | 871.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 138 | 715.9 |
| Burglary | 16 | 83 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 14 | 72.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 26 | 134.9 |
| Rape | 18 | 93.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 31.1 |
| Robbery | 2 | 10.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022, 2023 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 2 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 18,222 | 175.6 | 1031.7 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 18,302 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 18,388 | - | - |
| 2023 | Insufficient reporting | 18,465 | - | - |
| 2024 | Comparable | 19,276 | 134.9 | 871.6 |
North Aurora Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Aurora's 194 reported offenses (2-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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to North Aurora in population. Their populations run from 18,718 to 19,726, against 19,276 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
North Aurora sits at 134.9/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
North Aurora at 134.9/100K violent and 871.6/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
134.9/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
871.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, North Aurora reported 26 violent crimes and 168 property crimes, for a total of 194 reported offenses.
The most common crime type in North Aurora is larceny-theft, accounting for 71.1% of all reported crimes (138 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: North Aurora 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 North Aurora's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Aurora, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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