County crime profile · 2024 · large county · property-led
Peoria County, IL
At 181,830 residents, Peoria County is a large county in Illinois. FBI UCR county totals below are read before any per-100,000 rate (Census denominator when matched).
Peoria County, IL reported 84 violent crimes per 100,000 in FBI UCR 2024
According to the FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program for 2024, Peoria County, IL agencies reported 153 violent and 526 property offenses. That equals about 84 violent and 289 property crimes per 100,000 using a verified Census population join. Table 10 coverage is a voluntary subset of U.S. counties.
2024 UCR year
153 violent offenses
84/100K violent rate
What the 2024 FBI UCR record shows for Peoria County, IL
Position in the state cohort
Peoria County reported a higher violent-crime rate than most comparable Illinois counties
At 84.1 reported violent offenses per 100,000 residents in 2024, Peoria County ranks 5 of 77 — above 72 of the 76 other Illinois counties whose 2024 submission passes this site’s completeness test and carries a matched Census denominator. That is +125.7% against the cohort median of 37.3. Counties that did not report, or that reported implausibly low totals, are excluded from this cohort rather than counted as low-crime.
2022–2024 direction
The reported violent-crime rate ended the window lower
Across 3 comparable reporting years, the rate moved from 86.3 per 100,000 in 2022 to 84.1 in 2024 (-2.5%). The highest observed value was 91.8 in 2023 and the lowest 84.1 in 2024. Years whose submission failed the completeness test are left out of this comparison rather than plotted as change.
On a large county row, county figures aggregate every participating agency inside the county. Participation is voluntary. Per-100,000 rates use a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census county population, never a Table 10 field; unmatched counties stay count-only. A large county line encloses very different communities.
Crime Breakdown (2024) · property-led · large county
Category
Count
Property Crime
526
Burglary
193
Larceny-Theft
245
Motor Vehicle Theft
88
Arson
4
Violent Crime
153
Murder
0
Rape
27
Robbery
5
Aggravated Assault
121
Reporting Agency
Peoria County Sheriff's Office NIBRS-participating
Peoria County's crime figures on this page originate from Peoria County Sheriff's Office's submission to the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
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 Counties in Illinois
A per-capita rate is easiest to read against places of similar scale, so these are the Illinois counties closest to Peoria County in population. Their populations run from 131,869 to 205,865, against 181,830 here. Or launch the
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Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10.
FBI Table 10 supplies county offense counts but no resident population. Where this page shows a per-100,000 rate, the denominator is a separately matched 2020 U.S. Census Bureau county population; unmatched county rows remain count-only. Statewide comparisons draw on the state UCR program. Verify with FBI.gov UCR and Census.gov QuickFacts.