Sauk Village, IL has a C safety grade (48/100) with a violent crime rate of 406 per 100,000, 15% above the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · small city
Sauk Village is a small municipal reporter (9,360 on the UCR row). Per-100,000 violent and property rates are shown with IL and U.S. context.
Data updated 2026-09-05
Sauk Village, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 15% above the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Sauk Village, IL shows violent crime at 406 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,335.5 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 15% above 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.
2020–2024 direction
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 3809.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 406.0 in 2024 (-89.3%). The highest observed value was 3809.2 in 2020 and the lowest 406.0 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
At 406.0 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Sauk Village ranks 50 of 506 — above 456 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +307.3% 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.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Sauk Village's 406.0 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Fairview Heights (407.6), Forest Park (416.0), DeKalb (393.0), Lansing (391.8). 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.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 23.3% of the 163 Part I offenses reported in Sauk Village for 2024, against a median of 11.2% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 12.1 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-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 60.8% of reported property offenses in Sauk Village, against a cohort median of 70.3%. The remainder is burglary (17) and motor vehicle theft (32). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Sauk Village'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.
Across 4 Census sq mi, Sauk Village logged 31.3 property and 9.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Sauk Village leans on larceny-theft at 47% of reported offenses, with a moderate mix index of 2,863.
Violent offenses are 23% of the municipal total; property offenses still dominate the count.
Sauk Village offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 125 | 1335.5 |
| Larceny-Theft | 76 | 812 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 32 | 341.9 |
| Burglary | 17 | 181.6 |
| Arson | 3 | 32.1 |
| Violent Crime | 38 | 406 |
| Aggravated Assault | 19 | 203 |
| Rape | 9 | 96.2 |
| Robbery | 8 | 85.5 |
| Murder | 2 | 21.4 |
The chart omits 2021, 2022 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · fell across 3 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 10,212 | 3809.2 | 1508 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 10,077 | - | - |
| 2022 | Insufficient reporting | 9,518 | - | - |
| 2023 | Comparable | 9,422 | 806.6 | 1814.9 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 9,360 | 406 | 1335.5 |
Sauk Village Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Sauk Village's 163 reported offenses (3-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 Sauk Village in population. Their populations run from 9,125 to 9,470, against 9,360 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Sauk Village sits at 406/100K violent (grade C); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
In 2024, Sauk Village reported 38 violent crimes and 125 property crimes, for a total of 163 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Sauk Village's violent crime rate decreased by 49.7%, and the property crime rate decreased by 26.4%.
The most common crime type in Sauk Village is larceny-theft, accounting for 46.6% of all reported crimes (76 incidents in 2024).
Small-city read: Sauk Village 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.
Small-city rate methodology for how Sauk Village's small city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Sauk Village, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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