Oak Forest, IL has a A safety grade (87/100) with a violent crime rate of 89 per 100,000, 75% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Oak Forest (25,823 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
Oak Forest, 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, Oak Forest, IL shows violent crime at 89.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 437.6 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.
Small-count caution
Oak Forest reported 23 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 25,823. 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 Oak Forest's 89.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are New Baden (89.7), Mount Prospect (89.7), River Grove (88.4), Shelbyville (88.3). 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 177.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 89.1 in 2024 (-49.7%). The highest observed value was 177.2 in 2020 and the lowest 69.2 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 16.9% of the 136 Part I offenses reported in Oak Forest for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 5.7 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 61.9% of reported property offenses in Oak Forest, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (33) and motor vehicle theft (10). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 89.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oak Forest ranks 273 of 506 — above 233 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -11.6% 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 Oak Forest'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 23 reported violent incidents in a population of 25,823. 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 6 Census sq mi, Oak Forest logged 18.7 property and 3.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oak Forest leans on larceny-theft at 51% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,436.
Violent offenses are 17% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Oak Forest offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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 | 113 | 437.6 |
| Larceny-Theft | 70 | 271.1 |
| Burglary | 33 | 127.8 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 10 | 38.7 |
| Arson | 1 | 3.9 |
| Violent Crime | 23 | 89.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 15 | 58.1 |
| Robbery | 6 | 23.2 |
| Rape | 2 | 7.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 27,084 | 177.2 | 1037.5 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 26,773 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 26,282 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 26,016 | 69.2 | 607.3 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 25,823 | 89.1 | 437.6 |
Oak Forest Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oak Forest's 136 reported offenses (3-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 Oak Forest in population. Their populations run from 25,302 to 26,663, against 25,823 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Oak Forest sits at 89.1/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Oak Forest at 89.1/100K violent and 437.6/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
89.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
437.6/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+28.8% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Oak Forest reported 23 violent crimes and 113 property crimes, for a total of 136 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Oak Forest's violent crime rate increased by 28.8%, and the property crime rate decreased by 27.9%.
The most common crime type in Oak Forest is larceny-theft, accounting for 51.5% of all reported crimes (70 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Oak Forest 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 Oak Forest's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oak Forest, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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