Palatine, IL has a A safety grade (85/100) with a violent crime rate of 67 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
At 63,960 residents, Palatine 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.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Palatine, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 81% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Palatine, IL shows violent crime at 67.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 941.2 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 81% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Palatine's 67.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Lockport (67.5), Palos Hills (68.4), Manito (68.6), Flossmoor (65.8). 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 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 49.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 67.2 in 2024 (+37.2%). The highest observed value was 130.6 in 2022 and the lowest 49.0 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 67.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Palatine ranks 315 of 506 — above 191 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -33.2% 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 6.7% of the 645 Part I offenses reported in Palatine for 2024, against a median of 11.3% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 4.6 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 Palatine'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.
Across 14.1 Census sq mi, Palatine logged 42.6 property and 3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Palatine's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (66% of 645 offenses; mix index 4,860).
Violent offenses are only 7% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Palatine offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (14.1 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 | 602 | 941.2 |
| Larceny-Theft | 426 | 666 |
| Burglary | 135 | 211.1 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 41 | 64.1 |
| Arson | 2 | 3.1 |
| Violent Crime | 43 | 67.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 25 | 39.1 |
| Rape | 11 | 17.2 |
| Robbery | 6 | 9.4 |
| Murder | 1 | 1.6 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 67,358 | 49 | 467.7 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 66,655 | 79.5 | 595.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 65,078 | 130.6 | 943.5 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 64,407 | 122.7 | 945.5 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 63,960 | 67.2 | 941.2 |
Palatine Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Palatine's 645 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Palatine in population. Their populations run from 54,953 to 74,178, against 63,960 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Palatine sits at 67.2/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Palatine at 67.2/100K violent and 941.2/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
67.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
941.2/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (-45.2% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Palatine reported 43 violent crimes and 602 property crimes, for a total of 645 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Palatine's violent crime rate decreased by 45.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 0.5%.
The most common crime type in Palatine is larceny-theft, accounting for 66.0% of all reported crimes (426 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Palatine'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.
Large-city rate methodology for how Palatine's large city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Palatine, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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