CrimeMetric

Crime in Beardstown, Illinois

Major crime in Beardstown is 42% below the U.S. rate per resident: 55% lower for persons crimes and 39% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.0% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
58
42% below the U.S. rate
38% below the Illinois rate
down 8.0% in a year
Persons crimes
45
55% below the U.S. rate
34% below the Illinois rate
down 5.1% in a year
Property crimes
61
39% below the U.S. rate
38% below the Illinois rate
down 8.5% in a year
Social disorder
75
25% below the U.S. rate
31% below the Illinois rate
down 6.0% in a year

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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Crime by type

Every crime type in Beardstown is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Beardstown for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Beardstown

The middle half of Beardstown residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 48 and 62; the typical (median) resident's is 52.

Map of Beardstown, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5034.2%
  • 50–10054.7%
  • 100–20011.1%
  • 200–4000.0%
  • 400+0.0%

Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.

When it happens

About the same at every time of week

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm59
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am58
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm57
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am57
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.0% in a year; across Illinois it fell 9.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.0%IL -9.6%-17.8%IL -14.2%
Persons crimes-5.1%IL -14.4%-5.1%IL -6.8%
Property crimes-8.5%IL -8.9%-19.8%IL -15.4%
Social disorder-6.0%IL -12.0%-11.3%IL -8.2%

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.

Similar-size places

Beardstown against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

1,175 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Beardstown; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

El Rio, CA5,77568
Beardstown, IL5,78258
Brady, TX5,77749
Ada, OH5,77544
Erwin, TN5,77732

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Beardstown has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rushville (11 mi), is 49% below Beardstown's rate.

Havana28 mi111
Jacksonville22 mi102
Pittsfield34 mi78
Beardstown58
Bushnell38 mi48
Lewistown30 mi44
Macomb34 mi38
Rushville11 mi30

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Beardstown

What are the most common crimes in Beardstown?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 17 a year), shoplifting (about 15 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 9 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: about 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. Beardstown's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Beardstown has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
  • 0.0% 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: 5,782. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Beardstown, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/beardstown

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100