Crime in Des Plaines, Illinois
Major crime in Des Plaines is 52% below the U.S. rate per resident: 70% lower for persons crimes and 48% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.7% 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 24% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Des Plaines 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 Des Plaines
The middle half of Des Plaines residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 30 and 58; the typical (median) resident's is 41.
- 0–5060.7%
- 50–10034.3%
- 100–2005.0%
- 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.
Highest on weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 5.7% 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.
Des Plaines against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
479 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Des Plaines; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Des Plaines has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mount Prospect (3 mi), is about Des Plaines's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Des Plaines
What are the most common crimes in Des Plaines?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 197 a year), theft from vehicle (about 113 a year) and motor vehicle theft (about 50 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 24% above 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. Des Plaines's figures add up its 45 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Des Plaines has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 3.7% 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: 58,349. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Des Plaines, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/des-plaines
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Mount Prospect3 mi47
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- Prospect Heights5 mi41
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