Oak Lawn, IL has a B safety grade (67/100) with a violent crime rate of 180 per 100,000, 49% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Oak Lawn, IL Crime Rate & Safety
At 54,953 residents, Oak Lawn 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.
Oak Lawn, IL carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 49% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oak Lawn, IL shows violent crime at 180.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,726.9 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 49% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
180.2/100K violent
1726.9/100K property
-49% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Oak Lawn, IL
Comparable rate records
Oak Lawn's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oak Lawn's 180.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Crest Hill (179.8), Villa Park (180.8), Watseka (179.5), Bridgeport (179.3). 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
Oak Lawn sits mid-pack among comparable Illinois cities
At 180.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oak Lawn ranks 164 of 506 — above 342 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +80.8% 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 169.6 per 100,000 in 2020 to 180.2 in 2024 (+6.2%). The highest observed value was 180.2 in 2024 and the lowest 114.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Oak Lawn'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.
Oak Lawn's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 8.6 Census sq mi, Oak Lawn logged 110.7 property and 11.6 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oak Lawn's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 1,048 offenses; mix index 4,173).
Violent offenses are only 9% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.6 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+31.2%
137.3 → 180.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
+9.5%
1576.7 → 1726.9/100K
Property offenses lead Oak Lawn's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IL
Property Crime
949
1726.9
1664.8
Larceny-Theft
635
1155.5
-
Burglary
189
343.9
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
125
227.5
-
Arson
3
5.5
-
Violent Crime
99
180.2
277.5
Aggravated Assault
53
96.4
-
Robbery
24
43.7
-
Rape
20
36.4
-
Murder
2
3.6
-
Oak Lawn Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Oak Lawn property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Oak Lawn Police Department
Reporting agency for Oak Lawn NIBRS-participating
Oak Lawn Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oak Lawn's 1,048 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Illinois
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Oak Lawn at 180.2/100K violent and 1,726.9/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Oak Lawn reported 99 violent crimes and 949 property crimes, for a total of 1,048 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Oak Lawn?
From 2023 to 2024, Oak Lawn's violent crime rate increased by 31.2%, and the property crime rate increased by 9.5%.
What is the most common crime in Oak Lawn?
The most common crime type in Oak Lawn is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.6% of all reported crimes (635 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Oak Lawn'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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Oak Lawn, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.