Decision-support ranking comparing Illinois cities by current violent crime per 1,000 using the currently published coarse crime context, then routing readers into each city brief for tract context and caveats.
Ranked rows are precomputed and served as static HTML from R2.
| # | Place | Metric | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danville Violent Crime has increased 55% since 2021. |
15.0 / 1k | → |
| 2 | Peoria Violent Crime has increased 25% since 2022. |
12.8 / 1k | → |
| 3 | Chicago Heights Violent Crime has increased 82% since 2021. |
9.3 / 1k | → |
| 4 | Rockford Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021. |
9.3 / 1k | → |
| 5 | Alton Violent Crime has increased 74% since 2021. |
9.2 / 1k | → |
| 6 | Carbondale Violent Crime has increased 22% since 2022. |
8.9 / 1k | → |
| 7 | Springfield Violent Crime has increased 12% since 2021. |
8.5 / 1k | → |
| 8 | Peoria Heights Violent Crime has increased 27% since 2022. |
8.1 / 1k | → |
| 9 | Riverdale Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
7.0 / 1k | → |
| 10 | Granite City Violent Crime has increased 11% since 2021. |
6.1 / 1k | → |
| 11 | Decatur Violent Crime has declined 39% since 2021. |
5.7 / 1k | → |
| 12 | Chicago Violent Crime has increased 97% since 2021. |
5.7 / 1k | → |
| 13 | Mattoon Violent Crime has increased 18% since 2023. |
5.3 / 1k | → |
| 14 | Urbana Violent Crime has increased 41% since 2021. |
5.2 / 1k | → |
| 15 | Rantoul Violent Crime has increased 55% since 2021. |
5.1 / 1k | → |
| 16 | Belleville Violent Crime has increased 52% since 2021. |
5.0 / 1k | → |
| 17 | Champaign Violent Crime has declined 21% since 2021. |
4.8 / 1k | → |
| 18 | Rock Island Violent Crime has declined 15% since 2021. |
4.7 / 1k | → |
| 19 | Marion Violent Crime does not yet have a long enough history to describe a full trend. |
4.7 / 1k | → |
| 20 | Zion Violent Crime has declined 8% since 2022. |
4.4 / 1k | → |
| 21 | Forest Park Violent Crime moved up by 4.3 / 1k from 0.0 / 1k in 2021 to 4.3 / 1k in 2024. The earlier baseline was too small for a reliable headline percentage. |
4.3 / 1k | → |
| 22 | Waukegan Violent Crime has increased 24% since 2023. |
4.1 / 1k | → |
| 23 | Lansing Violent Crime has increased 5% since 2022. |
4.0 / 1k | → |
| 24 | Moline Violent Crime has declined 36% since 2021. |
3.9 / 1k | → |
| 25 | Fairview Heights Violent Crime has increased 31% since 2021. |
3.8 / 1k | → |
This page is useful for a current statewide pressure screen. It compares supported Illinois cities by aggregate violent-crime rate before you open the deeper city briefs. Outside Colorado, this remains statewide fallback context rather than local incident-feed depth.
A current city rate does not tell you whether conditions are improving, how concentrated the pressure is, or which neighborhoods are driving it. Open the city brief and neighborhood pages next.