Crime in Bellwood, Illinois
Major crime in Bellwood is 30% below the U.S. rate per resident: 21% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% 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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Vandalism and simple assault stand out most, at about 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Bellwood 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 Bellwood
The middle half of Bellwood residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 41 and 86; the typical (median) resident's is 67.
- 0–5043.6%
- 50–10046.8%
- 100–2006.9%
- 200–4002.7%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.5% 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.
Bellwood against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,096 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Bellwood; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Bellwood 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, Hillside (1 mi), is 1.6 times Bellwood's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Bellwood
What are the most common crimes in Bellwood?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 72 a year), shoplifting (about 35 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 33 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 1.6 times 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. Bellwood's figures add up its 16 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Bellwood 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: 18,164. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Bellwood, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/bellwood
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Hillside1 mi113
- Stone Park1 mi18
- Melrose Park2 mi63
- Maywood2 mi39
- Berkeley2 mi56
- Broadview2 mi87
- Westchester2 mi42
- Northlake2 mi65