Park Ridge, IL has a A safety grade (83/100) with a violent crime rate of 96 per 100,000, 73% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Park Ridge (37,379 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
Park Ridge, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 73% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Park Ridge, IL shows violent crime at 96.3 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 848.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 73% 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 51.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 96.3 in 2024 (+87.0%). The highest observed value was 96.3 in 2024 and the lowest 2.6 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Park Ridge's 96.3 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Washington (95.2), McHenry (94.5), Woodstock (93.3), Glendale Heights (99.4). 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 52.7% of reported property offenses in Park Ridge, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (114) and motor vehicle theft (36). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Position in the state cohort
At 96.3 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Park Ridge ranks 256 of 506 — above 250 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -4.4% 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 Park Ridge'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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 7.1 Census sq mi, Park Ridge logged 44.7 property and 5.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Park Ridge leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,424.
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Park Ridge offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (7.1 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 | 317 | 848.1 |
| Larceny-Theft | 167 | 446.8 |
| Burglary | 114 | 305 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 36 | 96.3 |
| Arson | 1 | 2.7 |
| Violent Crime | 36 | 96.3 |
| Aggravated Assault | 17 | 45.5 |
| Rape | 12 | 32.1 |
| Robbery | 7 | 18.7 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · rose · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 36,888 | 51.5 | 948.8 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 36,417 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 38,108 | 2.6 | 42 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 37,676 | 66.4 | 822.8 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 37,379 | 96.3 | 848.1 |
Park Ridge Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Park Ridge's 353 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Park Ridge in population. Their populations run from 35,779 to 38,703, against 37,379 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Park Ridge sits at 96.3/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Park Ridge at 96.3/100K violent and 848.1/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
96.3/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
848.1/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
Out-of-state cities whose violent rate moved a similar share from 2023→2024 (+45% here); level-based peers above are excluded.
In 2024, Park Ridge reported 36 violent crimes and 317 property crimes, for a total of 353 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Park Ridge's violent crime rate increased by 45%, and the property crime rate increased by 3.1%.
The most common crime type in Park Ridge is larceny-theft, accounting for 47.3% of all reported crimes (167 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Park Ridge 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 Park Ridge's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Park Ridge, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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