Villa Park, IL carries a PlainCrime B safety grade with violent crime 49% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Villa Park, IL shows violent crime at 180.8 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,567 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 49% 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
180.8/100K violent
1567/100K property
-49% vs U.S.
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Villa Park, IL
Comparable rate records
Villa Park's closest reported-rate comparisons are in the Illinois cohort
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Villa Park's 180.8 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Oak Lawn (180.2), Crest Hill (179.8), Bolingbrook (182.0), Watseka (179.5). 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.
2020–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window higher
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 135.4 per 100,000 in 2020 to 180.8 in 2024 (+33.6%). The highest observed value was 180.8 in 2024 and the lowest 124.1 in 2022. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Position in the state cohort
Villa Park sits mid-pack among comparable Illinois cities
At 180.8 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Villa Park ranks 163 of 506 — above 343 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +81.4% 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.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft dominates the property total more than it does across the cohort
Larceny-theft is 79.0% of reported property offenses in Villa Park, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (46) and motor vehicle theft (25). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Property counts dominate Villa 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.
Villa Park's 2024 municipal footprint
Across 4.7 Census sq mi, Villa Park logged 71.6 property and 8.3 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Villa Park's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (71% of 377 offenses; mix index 5,250).
Violent offenses are only 10% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (4.7 sq mi); mix index is HHI x 10,000 on the offense-type shares above. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero.
Property rate moved most (2023→2024)
Property Crime Rate
+32.1%
1185.9 → 1567/100K
Violent Crime Rate
+8.4%
166.8 → 180.8/100K
Property offenses lead Villa Park's 2024 record
Offense
Count
Rate /100K
vs US avg
Property Crime
338
1567
1711
Larceny-Theft
267
1237.8
-
Burglary
46
213.3
-
Motor Vehicle Theft
25
115.9
-
Arson
1
4.6
-
Violent Crime
39
180.8
352
Aggravated Assault
20
92.7
-
Rape
13
60.3
-
Robbery
4
18.5
-
Murder
2
9.3
-
Villa Park Crime Trend (2020-2024)
Villa Park property crime rate trend
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program · split lines are the U.S. national averages
Villa Park Police Department
Reporting agency for Villa Park NIBRS-participating
Villa Park Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Villa Park's 377 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 Villa Park in population. Their populations run from 21,056 to 22,489, against 21,570 here. Or use our
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Villa Park at 180.8/100K violent and 1,567/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
In 2024, Villa Park reported 39 violent crimes and 338 property crimes, for a total of 377 reported offenses.
Is crime increasing or decreasing in Villa Park?
From 2023 to 2024, Villa Park's violent crime rate increased by 8.4%, and the property crime rate increased by 32.1%.
What is the most common crime in Villa Park?
The most common crime type in Villa Park is larceny-theft, accounting for 70.8% of all reported crimes (267 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Villa 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 Villa Park, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.