Oak Park, IL has a D safety grade (38/100) with a violent crime rate of 324 per 100,000, 8% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Oak Park, IL Crime Rate & Safety
At 51,306 residents, Oak Park 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 Park, IL carries a PlainCrime D safety grade with violent crime 8% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Oak Park, IL shows violent crime at 323.5 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 3,607.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 8% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade D from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
D safety grade
323.5/100K violent
3607.8/100K property
-8% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Oak Park, IL
Comparable rate records
Oak Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Oak Park's 323.5 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Leland (324.3), Machesney Park (319.6), Sterling (319.4), Richton Park (328.2). 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 Park reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois cities
At 323.5 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Oak Park ranks 80 of 506 — above 426 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +224.6% 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
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 59.9% of reported property offenses in Oak Park, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (545) and motor vehicle theft (198). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 370.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 323.5 in 2024 (-12.6%). The highest observed value was 370.0 in 2020 and the lowest 294.3 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 8.2% of the 2,017 Part I offenses reported in Oak Park for 2024, against a median of 11.3% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 3.1 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 Oak Park'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 Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.7 Census sq mi, Oak Park logged 393.8 property and 35.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Oak Park leans on larceny-theft at 55% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,869.
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Violent rate moved most (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
+9.9%
294.3 → 323.5/100K
Property Crime Rate
+7.7%
3351.1 → 3607.8/100K
Property offenses lead Oak Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IL
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,851
3607.8
1664.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,108
2159.6
-
-
Burglary
545
1062.3
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
198
385.9
-
-
Arson
5
9.7
-
-
Violent Crime
166
323.5
277.5
352
Aggravated Assault
72
140.3
-
-
Robbery
64
124.7
-
-
Rape
27
52.6
-
-
Murder
3
5.8
-
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Oak Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Oak Park property crime rate trend
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Oak Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Oak Park NIBRS-participating
Oak Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Oak Park's 2,017 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.
Similar-Size Cities in Illinois
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Oak Park in population. Their populations run from 48,311 to 53,581, against 51,306 here. Or use our
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Oak Park at 323.5/100K violent and 3,607.8/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Oak Park reported 166 violent crimes and 1,851 property crimes, for a total of 2,017 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Oak Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Oak Park's violent crime rate increased by 9.9%, and the property crime rate increased by 7.7%.
What is the most common crime in Oak Park?
The most common crime type in Oak Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 54.9% of all reported crimes (1,108 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Oak Park'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 Park, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.