Crime in Elgin, Illinois
Major crime in Elgin is 43% below the U.S. rate per resident: 42% lower for persons crimes and 43% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 5.8% 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 1.6 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Elgin 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 Elgin
The middle half of Elgin residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 75; the typical (median) resident's is 50.
- 0–5050.4%
- 50–10036.4%
- 100–20012.9%
- 200–4000.3%
- 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 5.8% 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.
Elgin against U.S. places with 100,000 to 250,000 residents
235 of the 268 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elgin; the middle of the group is 109. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Elgin has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, South Elgin (3 mi), is 38% below Elgin's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Elgin
What are the most common crimes in Elgin?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 442 a year), shoplifting (about 222 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 162 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 1.6 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. Elgin's figures add up its 76 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Elgin's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 23.3% 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: 123,830. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elgin, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/elgin
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- South Elgin3 mi35
- West Dundee4 mi122
- East Dundee5 mi117
- Carpentersville6 mi50
- Streamwood7 mi38
- Bartlett7 mi19
- South Barrington8 mi98
- St. Charles8 mi54