Peoria Heights, IL is among the highest-crime cities in the country, and earns an F PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 129% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Peoria Heights, IL shows violent crime at 807.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,667.1 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 129% above the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade F from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
F safety grade
807.2/100K violent
2667.1/100K property
+129% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Peoria Heights, IL
Position in the state cohort
Peoria Heights reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois cities
At 807.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Peoria Heights ranks 12 of 506 — above 494 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +709.9% 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 504.5 per 100,000 in 2020 to 807.2 in 2024 (+60.0%). The highest observed value was 807.2 in 2024 and the lowest 504.5 in 2020. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Comparable rate records
Peoria Heights's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Peoria Heights's 807.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are McCook (858.4), Havana (754.0), Springfield (901.2), Riverdale (709.4). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses make up an unusually large share of the reported mix
Violent offenses are 23.2% of the 198 Part I offenses reported in Peoria Heights for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 12.0 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-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 44.1% of reported property offenses in Peoria Heights, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (77) and motor vehicle theft (8). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Peoria Heights'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.
Small-city offense counts above are voluntary UCR submissions, not neighbourhood advice. Year-to-year swings can look large when the population base is modest.
Peoria Heights's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 2.5 Census sq mi, Peoria Heights logged 61 property and 18.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Peoria Heights leans on burglary at 39% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,088.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (2.5 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
+54.2%
523.5 → 807.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
-5.1%
2809.3 → 2667.1/100K
Property offenses lead Peoria Heights's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IL
vs US avg
Property Crime
152
2667.1
1664.8
1711
Burglary
77
1351.1
-
-
Larceny-Theft
67
1175.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
8
140.4
-
-
Arson
0
0
-
-
Violent Crime
46
807.2
277.5
352
Aggravated Assault
40
701.9
-
-
Rape
5
87.7
-
-
Robbery
1
17.5
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Peoria Heights Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Peoria Heights 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Peoria Heights: 807 violent, 2667 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Metropolis: 279 violent, 1275 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Bartonville: 384 violent, 2024 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Hillsboro: 209 violent, 575 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Du Quoin: 124 violent, 389 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Willow Springs: 0 violent, 390 property per 100,000 (grade A+)
Pontoon Beach: 259 violent, 1694 property per 100,000 (grade C)
East Alton: 447 violent, 1608 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Coal City: 103 violent, 361 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Peoria Heights Police Department
Reporting agency for Peoria Heights NIBRS-participating
Peoria Heights Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Peoria Heights's 198 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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In 2024, Peoria Heights reported 46 violent crimes and 152 property crimes, for a total of 198 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Peoria Heights?
From 2023 to 2024, Peoria Heights's violent crime rate increased by 54.2%, and the property crime rate decreased by 5.1%.
What is the most common crime in Peoria Heights?
The most common crime type in Peoria Heights is burglary, accounting for 38.9% of all reported crimes (77 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Peoria Heights is sourced from FBI UCR Table 8 for 2024; rates use that row's population.
Small-city rows use the same per-100,000 formula; a few unreported years can leave gaps in the trend table. Verify the agency's submission on FBI.gov UCR.
Disclaimer (small city): UCR counts here are informational only. They are not a victimization probability. Source: FBI UCR Program.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Peoria Heights, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.