Crime in Arlington Heights, Illinois
Major crime in Arlington Heights is 49% below the U.S. rate per resident: 87% lower for persons crimes and 40% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 11.8% from a year earlier.
Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this
Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.
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Every crime type in Arlington Heights is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Arlington Heights for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Property crimes
Social disorder
How crime varies across Arlington Heights
The middle half of Arlington Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 60; the typical (median) resident's is 33. The citywide figure (51) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5070.4%
- 50–10013.4%
- 100–20014.5%
- 200–4000.3%
- 400+1.3%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 11.8% in a year; across Illinois it fell 9.6%
Change in expected crimes, with Illinois as a whole in gray. The past year uses the reporting agencies' year-to-date FBI data; 2031 is the model's projection.
Arlington Heights against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
460 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Arlington Heights; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Arlington Heights has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rolling Meadows (3 mi), is 1.6 times Arlington Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Arlington Heights
What are the most common crimes in Arlington Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 285 a year), shoplifting (about 189 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 119 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 25% below the U.S. rate per resident.
How we calculated this
Each police agency's crimes, as reported to the FBI, are spread across the census block groups it serves using population, jobs, points of interest and, where available, local incident records. Arlington Heights's figures add up its 55 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Arlington Heights's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 8.3% of residents live in block groups whose estimate has high confidence (80% interval within about 5x).
- Rates are per resident, so places where many people work or visit but few live, such as downtowns, airports and stadiums, can read high.
- Disorderly conduct and trespassing are modeled, because the FBI records them only through arrests.
- Residents: 79,270. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Arlington Heights, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/arlington-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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