North Riverside, IL has a C safety grade (43/100) with a violent crime rate of 273 per 100,000, 22% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
North Riverside is a small municipal reporter (6,966 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
North Riverside, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 22% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, North Riverside, IL shows violent crime at 272.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 5,469.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% 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.
Small-count caution
North Riverside reported 19 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 6,966. 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 843.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 272.8 in 2024 (-67.7%). The highest observed value was 843.5 in 2020 and the lowest 28.1 in 2022. 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 North Riverside's 272.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Wood River (274.1), Monee (275.0), Tilton (275.8), Bradley (269.3). 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 272.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, North Riverside ranks 100 of 506 — above 406 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +173.7% 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 91.3% of reported property offenses in North Riverside, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (20) and motor vehicle theft (13). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 4.8% of the 400 Part I offenses reported in North Riverside for 2024, against a median of 11.3% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 6.5 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 North Riverside'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 19 reported violent incidents in a population of 6,966. 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.
Across 1.6 Census sq mi, North Riverside logged 231.8 property and 11.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
North Riverside's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (87% of 400 offenses; mix index 7,613).
Violent offenses are only 5% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
North Riverside offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (1.6 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 | 381 | 5469.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 348 | 4995.7 |
| Burglary | 20 | 287.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 13 | 186.6 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 19 | 272.8 |
| Robbery | 9 | 129.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 6 | 86.1 |
| Rape | 4 | 57.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 6,402 | 843.5 | 6982.2 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 6,314 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 7,106 | 28.1 | 1308.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 7,023 | 170.9 | 4513.7 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 6,966 | 272.8 | 5469.4 |
North Riverside Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind North Riverside's 400 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to North Riverside in population. Their populations run from 6,876 to 7,211, against 6,966 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
North Riverside sits at 272.8/100K violent (grade C); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, North Riverside reported 19 violent crimes and 381 property crimes, for a total of 400 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, North Riverside's violent crime rate increased by 59.6%, and the property crime rate increased by 21.2%.
The most common crime type in North Riverside is larceny-theft, accounting for 87.0% of all reported crimes (348 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: North Riverside 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how North Riverside's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 North Riverside, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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