Crime in Centralia, Illinois
Major crime in Centralia is 2.2 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.5 times for persons crimes and 2.1 times 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
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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 4.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Centralia 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 Centralia
The middle half of Centralia residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 75 and 309; the typical (median) resident's is 216.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10027.4%
- 100–20021.1%
- 200–40038.9%
- 400+12.7%
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 fell 8.0% 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.
Centralia against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
86 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Centralia; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Centralia has a higher major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Salem (12 mi), is 58% below Centralia's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Centralia
What are the most common crimes in Centralia?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 106 a year), theft from vehicle (about 94 a year) and aggravated assault (about 67 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 4.2 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. Centralia's figures add up its 14 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Centralia has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 35.3% 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: 11,136. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Centralia, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/centralia
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Salem12 mi92
- Carlyle15 mi62
- Mount Vernon19 mi96
- Nashville19 mi34
- Greenville29 mi57
- Vandalia31 mi96
- Sesser31 mi57
- Pinckneyville33 mi17