Palos Hills, IL has a A+ safety grade (90/100) with a violent crime rate of 68 per 100,000, 81% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Palos Hills (17,532 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
Palos Hills, 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, Palos Hills, IL shows violent crime at 68.4 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 410.7 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.
Small-count caution
Palos Hills reported 12 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 17,532. 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 Palos Hills's 68.4 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Manito (68.6), Rushville (68.9), Heyworth (69.3), Lockport (67.5). 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 48.6% of reported property offenses in Palos Hills, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (22) and motor vehicle theft (15). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 68.4 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Palos Hills ranks 313 of 506 — above 193 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -32.0% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 76.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 68.4 in 2024 (-10.4%). The highest observed value was 76.4 in 2020 and the lowest 53.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 14.3% of the 84 Part I offenses reported in Palos Hills for 2024, against a median of 11.2% 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 Palos Hills'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 12 reported violent incidents in a population of 17,532. 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 4.2 Census sq mi, Palos Hills logged 17 property and 2.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Palos Hills leans on larceny-theft at 42% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,874.
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Palos Hills offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.2 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 | 72 | 410.7 |
| Larceny-Theft | 35 | 199.6 |
| Burglary | 22 | 125.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 15 | 85.6 |
| Arson | 2 | 11.4 |
| Violent Crime | 12 | 68.4 |
| Aggravated Assault | 9 | 51.3 |
| Robbery | 3 | 17.1 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · rose across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 17,013 | 76.4 | 229.2 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 16,813 | 53.5 | 273.6 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 17,790 | 67.5 | 472.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 17,600 | 68.2 | 693.2 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 17,532 | 68.4 | 410.7 |
Palos Hills Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Palos Hills's 84 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 Palos Hills in population. Their populations run from 17,122 to 18,021, against 17,532 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Palos Hills sits at 68.4/100K violent (grade A+); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Palos Hills at 68.4/100K violent and 410.7/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
68.4/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
410.7/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Palos Hills reported 12 violent crimes and 72 property crimes, for a total of 84 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Palos Hills's violent crime rate increased by 0.3%, and the property crime rate decreased by 40.8%.
The most common crime type in Palos Hills is larceny-theft, accounting for 41.7% of all reported crimes (35 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Palos Hills 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 Palos Hills's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Palos Hills, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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