CrimeMetric

Crime in Elburn, Illinois

Major crime in Elburn is 77% below the U.S. rate per resident: 84% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.9% from a year earlier.

Modeled estimates per resident, not counts of incidents. How we calculated this

Major crime
23
77% below the U.S. rate
75% below the Illinois rate
down 7.9% in a year
Persons crimes
16
84% below the U.S. rate
76% below the Illinois rate
down 11.1% in a year
Property crimes
25
75% below the U.S. rate
75% below the Illinois rate
down 7.4% in a year
Social disorder
32
68% below the U.S. rate
70% below the Illinois rate
down 8.2% in a year

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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Crime by type

Every crime type in Elburn is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Elburn for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

Neighborhoods in Elburn

Elburn is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 20; the middle half of residents live where it is between 14 and 37.

Map of Elburn, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the key's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–50100.0%
  • 50–1000.0%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekday daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm30
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am19
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm20
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am16
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.9% in a year; across Illinois it fell 9.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.9%IL -9.6%-9.2%IL -14.2%
Persons crimes-11.1%IL -14.4%+5.3%IL -6.8%
Property crimes-7.4%IL -8.9%-11.3%IL -15.4%
Social disorder-8.2%IL -12.0%-1.4%IL -8.2%

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.

Similar-size places

Elburn against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents

2,068 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elburn; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

Alma, MI9,83073
Rifle, CO9,83570
Howell, MI9,83738
Elburn, IL9,83323

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.

Nearby places

Elburn has a higher major-crime index than 1 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Geneva (6 mi), is 2.1 times Elburn's rate.

Aurora12 mi69
Montgomery12 mi51
Geneva6 mi49
Batavia7 mi38
Elburn23

Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.

Questions about crime in Elburn

What are the most common crimes in Elburn?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 17 a year), shoplifting (about 7 a year) and burglary (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 46% 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. Elburn's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Elburn 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: 9,833. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elburn, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/elburn

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100