Crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois
Major crime in Chicago Heights is 1.8 times the U.S. rate per resident: 2.6 times for persons crimes and 1.6 times for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.9% 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.
Check an address in Chicago Heights
Intimidation stands out most, at 4.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Chicago 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 Chicago Heights
The middle half of Chicago Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 93 and 236; the typical (median) resident's is 139. The citywide figure (176) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10027.1%
- 100–20040.5%
- 200–40027.7%
- 400+4.7%
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 13.9% 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.
Chicago Heights against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
84 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Chicago Heights; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Chicago Heights 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, South Chicago Heights (2 mi), is 5% below Chicago Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Chicago Heights
What are the most common crimes in Chicago Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 188 a year), aggravated assault (about 181 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 173 a year). Compared with the U.S., intimidation stands out most: 4.6 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. Chicago Heights's figures add up its 24 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Chicago Heights has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 100.0% 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: 29,142. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Chicago Heights, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/chicago-heights
Use these numbers in your product
Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.
Get a free API keyNearest cities we publish
Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- South Chicago Heights2 mi166
- Flossmoor3 mi83
- Park Forest3 mi77
- Glenwood3 mi144
- Steger3 mi116
- Homewood3 mi141
- Hazel Crest4 mi147
- Richton Park5 mi100