Washington, IL has a A safety grade (81/100) with a violent crime rate of 95 per 100,000, 73% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Washington (15,760 people) sits in the mid-size municipal band. This page opens with per-100,000 FBI UCR rates, then IL and national benchmarks.
Data updated 2026-08-24
Washington, IL carries a PlainCrime A safety grade with violent crime 73% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Washington, IL shows violent crime at 95.2 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,129.4 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 73% below the U.S. average. PlainCrime assigns grade A from those rates. Figures are voluntary agency submissions joined to population denominators; incomplete coverage can move the number.
Small-count caution
Washington reported 15 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 15,760. At this volume one additional or one fewer report moves the per-100,000 rate noticeably, so the figure is better read as a data point than as a precise measurement, and year-to-year swings here are expected.
Comparable rate records
The nearest comparable 2024 records to Washington's 95.2 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are McHenry (94.5), Park Ridge (96.3), Woodstock (93.3), Brookfield (92.7). 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 156.0 per 100,000 in 2020 to 95.2 in 2024 (-39.0%). The highest observed value was 156.0 in 2020 and the lowest 6.1 in 2021. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property-offense composition
Larceny-theft is 88.2% of reported property offenses in Washington, against a cohort median of 70.2%. The remainder is burglary (16) and motor vehicle theft (5). Composition differences of this size usually track what kinds of places and property are present in a jurisdiction.
Offense mix
Violent offenses are 7.8% of the 193 Part I offenses reported in Washington for 2024, against a median of 11.3% across comparable Illinois cities — a gap of 3.5 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.
Position in the state cohort
At 95.2 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Washington ranks 257 of 506 — above 249 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is -5.5% 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 Washington'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.
Based on 15 reported violent incidents in a population of 15,760. At this volume, one additional or one fewer report can shift the rate and letter grade noticeably; small-city crime counts are inherently more volatile year to year than large-city counts, so treat this grade as a data point, not a precise ranking.
Mid-size municipal totals above are reported offenses, not safety advice for any single block. Reporting completeness still varies by year and agency.
Across 8.6 Census sq mi, Washington logged 20.8 property and 1.8 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Washington's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (81% of 193 offenses; mix index 6,728).
Violent offenses are only 8% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Washington offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (8.6 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 | 178 | 1129.4 |
| Larceny-Theft | 157 | 996.2 |
| Burglary | 16 | 101.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 5 | 31.7 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 |
| Violent Crime | 15 | 95.2 |
| Aggravated Assault | 11 | 69.8 |
| Rape | 3 | 19 |
| Robbery | 1 | 6.3 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
The chart omits 2021 rather than drawing an unsupported zero or partial-coverage dip. The table preserves the year and marks the gap.
Lead series · rose across 4 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 16,662 | 156 | 1026.3 |
| 2021 | Insufficient reporting | 16,514 | - | - |
| 2022 | Comparable | 15,910 | 69.1 | 930.2 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 15,808 | 139.2 | 1910.4 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 15,760 | 95.2 | 1129.4 |
Washington Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Washington's 193 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Washington in population. Their populations run from 15,122 to 16,464, against 15,760 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Washington sits at 95.2/100K violent (grade A); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Washington at 95.2/100K violent and 1,129.4/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
95.2/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,129.4/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Washington reported 15 violent crimes and 178 property crimes, for a total of 193 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Washington's violent crime rate decreased by 31.6%, and the property crime rate decreased by 40.9%.
The most common crime type in Washington is larceny-theft, accounting for 81.3% of all reported crimes (157 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Washington 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.
Mid-size rate methodology for how Washington's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Washington, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. Washington is scored in the mid-size municipal band (15,760 on the row). See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.