Crime in Carol Stream, Illinois
Major crime in Carol Stream is 57% below the U.S. rate per resident: 79% lower for persons crimes and 53% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 3.0% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Carol Stream 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 Carol Stream
The middle half of Carol Stream residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 15 and 43; the typical (median) resident's is 20. The citywide figure (43) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5079.3%
- 50–10010.3%
- 100–2005.2%
- 200–4005.2%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 3.0% 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.
Carol Stream against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
789 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Carol Stream; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Carol Stream 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, Glendale Heights (3 mi), is 11% above Carol Stream's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Carol Stream
What are the most common crimes in Carol Stream?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 160 a year), shoplifting (about 60 a year) and aggravated assault (about 18 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.8 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. Carol Stream's figures add up its 27 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Carol Stream 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: 39,990. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Carol Stream, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/carol-stream
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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