Richton Park, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 7% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Richton Park, IL shows violent crime at 328.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,108.8 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 7% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade C from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
C safety grade
328.2/100K violent
2108.8/100K property
-7% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Richton Park, IL
Comparable rate records
Richton Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Richton Park's 328.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Normal (329.1), Country Club Hills (329.4), Westville (331.2), Farmer City (331.9). 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
Richton Park reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois cities
At 328.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Richton Park ranks 78 of 506 — above 428 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +229.3% 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 4 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 294.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 328.2 in 2024 (+11.5%). The highest observed value was 328.2 in 2024 and the lowest 114.2 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Burglary and vehicle theft carry more of the property total than they do across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 62.3% of reported property offenses in Richton Park, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (33) and motor vehicle theft (64). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Richton 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.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Richton Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.4 Census sq mi, Richton Park logged 58.5 property and 9.1 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Richton Park leans on larceny-theft at 54% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 3,560.
Violent offenses are only 13% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.4 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
+34.5%
244 → 328.2/100K
Property Crime Rate
+5.8%
1992.5 → 2108.8/100K
Property offenses lead Richton Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IL
vs US avg
Property Crime
257
2108.8
1664.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
160
1312.9
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
64
525.1
-
-
Burglary
33
270.8
-
-
Arson
3
24.6
-
-
Violent Crime
40
328.2
277.5
352
Aggravated Assault
21
172.3
-
-
Robbery
11
90.3
-
-
Rape
7
57.4
-
-
Murder
1
8.2
-
-
Richton 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.
Richton 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 averagesRead the chart as a list
Richton Park: 328 violent, 2109 property per 100,000 (grade C)
Streator: 189 violent, 1754 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Winnetka: 82 violent, 658 property per 100,000 (grade A)
Effingham: 221 violent, 1976 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Herrin: 388 violent, 2540 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Northlake: 124 violent, 1719 property per 100,000 (grade B)
Rantoul: 549 violent, 1774 property per 100,000 (grade D)
Hazel Crest: 540 violent, 2693 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Centralia: 664 violent, 2579 property per 100,000 (grade F)
Richton Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Richton Park NIBRS-participating
Richton Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Richton Park's 297 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
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Richton Park at 328.2/100K violent and 2,108.8/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Richton Park reported 40 violent crimes and 257 property crimes, for a total of 297 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Richton Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Richton Park's violent crime rate increased by 34.5%, and the property crime rate increased by 5.8%.
What is the most common crime in Richton Park?
The most common crime type in Richton Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 53.9% of all reported crimes (160 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Richton Park 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.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Richton Park, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.