Crime in Downers Grove, Illinois
Major crime in Downers Grove is 65% below the U.S. rate per resident: 79% lower for persons crimes and 63% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 22.1% 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 Downers Grove
Every crime type in Downers Grove is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Downers Grove 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 Downers Grove
The middle half of Downers Grove residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 30.
- 0–5084.0%
- 50–10014.0%
- 100–2002.1%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 22.1% 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.
Downers Grove against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
868 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Downers Grove; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Downers Grove has a higher major-crime index than 3 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Westmont (2 mi), is 1.5 times Downers Grove's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Downers Grove
What are the most common crimes in Downers Grove?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 127 a year), shoplifting (about 48 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 32 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 13% below 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. Downers Grove's figures add up its 34 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Downers Grove's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 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: 49,618. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Downers Grove, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/downers-grove
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
- Westmont2 mi52
- Woodridge3 mi33
- Darien3 mi44
- Willowbrook3 mi48
- Lisle4 mi30
- Hinsdale4 mi27
- Burr Ridge5 mi54
- Lombard6 mi75