Schaumburg, IL has a B safety grade (70/100) with a violent crime rate of 91 per 100,000, 74% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · large city
Schaumburg, IL Crime Rate & Safety
At 74,882 residents, Schaumburg is a large city: FBI UCR Table 8 rates (per 100,000) here are read against IL and U.S. averages before the offense-family breakdown.
Schaumburg, IL carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 74% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Schaumburg, IL shows violent crime at 90.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 2,398.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 74% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade B from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
B safety grade
90.8/100K violent
2398.4/100K property
-74% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Schaumburg, IL
Comparable rate records
Schaumburg's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Schaumburg's 90.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Round Lake Park (90.4), River Forest (90.3), Batavia (91.6), Amboy (90.0). 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 dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 87.9% of reported property offenses in Schaumburg, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (130) and motor vehicle theft (88). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
The reported mix leans further toward property offenses than the state cohort
Violent offenses are 3.6% of the 1,864 Part I offenses reported in Schaumburg for 2024, against a median of 11.3% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 7.6 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 107.2 per 100,000 in 2020 to 90.8 in 2024 (-15.3%). The highest observed value was 110.5 in 2023 and the lowest 90.5 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Schaumburg sits mid-pack among comparable Illinois cities
At 90.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Schaumburg ranks 267 of 506 — above 239 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -9.8% 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 Schaumburg'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.
On a large city row, these are citywide reported offense totals - not neighbourhood advice. Conditions vary by place and time; reporting rates differ across jurisdictions.
Schaumburg's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 19.4 Census sq mi, Schaumburg logged 92.7 property and 3.5 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Schaumburg's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (85% of 1,864 offenses; mix index 7,242).
Violent offenses are only 4% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (19.4 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Both rates shifted (2023→2024)
Violent Crime Rate
-17.8%
110.5 → 90.8/100K
Property Crime Rate
+15.8%
2070.8 → 2398.4/100K
Property offenses lead Schaumburg's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs IL
vs US avg
Property Crime
1,796
2398.4
1664.8
1711
Larceny-Theft
1,578
2107.3
-
-
Burglary
130
173.6
-
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
88
117.5
-
-
Arson
1
1.3
-
-
Violent Crime
68
90.8
277.5
352
Aggravated Assault
30
40.1
-
-
Rape
21
28
-
-
Robbery
17
22.7
-
-
Murder
0
0
-
-
Schaumburg Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Schaumburg 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 averages
Schaumburg Police Department
Reporting agency for Schaumburg NIBRS-participating
Schaumburg Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Schaumburg's 1,864 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
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Schaumburg in population. Their populations run from 63,960 to 87,155, against 74,882 here. Or use our
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In 2024, Schaumburg reported 68 violent crimes and 1,796 property crimes, for a total of 1,864 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Schaumburg?
From 2023 to 2024, Schaumburg's violent crime rate decreased by 17.8%, and the property crime rate increased by 15.8%.
What is the most common crime in Schaumburg?
The most common crime type in Schaumburg is larceny-theft, accounting for 84.7% of all reported crimes (1,578 incidents in 2024).
Large-city read: Schaumburg's rates come from the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, CIUS Table 8, vintage 2024.
Incomplete reporters stay out of rate rankings. Cross-check population with Census ACS; state UCR programs for statewide context. Primary verify links: FBI.gov UCR, Census QuickFacts.
Disclaimer (large city): informational crime rates only - not legal, insurance, or personal-safety advice. Source: FBI UCR. Ask a qualified professional before acting.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Schaumburg, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.