Wood River, IL has a C safety grade (58/100) with a violent crime rate of 274 per 100,000, 22% below the national average.
FBI UCR 2024 · per-capita rates · mid-size city
Wood River (10,216 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 2026-09-05
Wood River, IL is higher-crime than most U.S. cities, and earns a C PlainCrime safety grade, where violent crime runs 22% below the U.S. average
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Wood River, IL shows violent crime at 274.1 per 100,000 residents and property crime at 1,713 per 100,000. Violent crime runs 22% 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.
Small-count caution
Wood River reported 28 violent offences in 2024 against a population of 10,216. 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 Wood River's 274.1 violent-crime rate per 100,000 are Monee (275.0), North Riverside (272.8), Tilton (275.8), Bradley (269.3). 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
At 274.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Wood River ranks 99 of 506 — above 407 of the 505 other Illinois cities whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test. That is +175.0% 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
Across 5 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 310.3 per 100,000 in 2020 to 274.1 in 2024 (-11.7%). The highest observed value was 442.6 in 2021 and the lowest 223.1 in 2023. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
Property counts dominate Wood River'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 28 reported violent incidents in a population of 10,216. 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 7 Census sq mi, Wood River logged 25.1 property and 4 violent offenses per square mile in 2024.
Wood River's 2024 book concentrates in larceny-theft (61% of 203 offenses; mix index 4,174).
Violent offenses are only 14% of the municipal total - a property-led book.
Wood River offense mix (2024)
Density uses Census Gazetteer land area (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.
| Offense | Count | Rate /100K |
|---|---|---|
| Property Crime | 175 | 1713 |
| Larceny-Theft | 123 | 1204 |
| Burglary | 40 | 391.5 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 12 | 117.5 |
| Arson | 1 | 9.8 |
| Violent Crime | 28 | 274.1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 14 | 137 |
| Rape | 11 | 107.7 |
| Robbery | 3 | 29.4 |
| Murder | 0 | 0 |
Lead series · fell across 5 comparable years · FBI UCR
Secondary series · fell · 2020-2024 · FBI UCR
| Year | Coverage | Population | Violent Rate | Property Rate |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | Comparable | 9,990 | 310.3 | 3553.6 |
| 2021 | Comparable | 9,942 | 442.6 | 2776.1 |
| 2022 | Comparable | 10,350 | 376.8 | 2405.8 |
| 2023 | Comparable | 10,309 | 223.1 | 1775.1 |
| 2024 | Comparable | 10,216 | 274.1 | 1713 |
Wood River Police Department filed the 2024 UCR row behind Wood River's 203 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.
Crime rates read differently at different scales, so these are the Illinois cities closest to Wood River in population. Their populations run from 10,009 to 10,455, against 10,216 here. Or use our side-by-side compare tool to benchmark two cities directly.
Wood River sits at 274.1/100K violent (grade C); the Illinois cities below are the nearest matches after size peers are removed.
Wood River at 274.1/100K violent and 1,713/100K property - matched below outside Illinois (≥10k pop, latest UCR vintage; not the in-state lists above).
274.1/100K here; nearest out-of-state matches.
1,713/100K here; violent-rate peers above excluded.
In 2024, Wood River reported 28 violent crimes and 175 property crimes, for a total of 203 reported offenses.
From 2023 to 2024, Wood River's violent crime rate increased by 22.9%, and the property crime rate decreased by 3.5%.
The most common crime type in Wood River is larceny-theft, accounting for 60.6% of all reported crimes (123 incidents in 2024).
Mid-size read: Wood River 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 Wood River's mid-size city row is sourced and ranked.
Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program CIUS Table 8 municipal crime rates · 2024 Wood River, IL rates use the reporting-year population on the municipal row.
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