Crime in Elmwood Park, Illinois
Major crime in Elmwood Park is 31% below the U.S. rate per resident: 66% lower for persons crimes and 24% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.7% 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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Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 34% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Elmwood Park 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 Elmwood Park
The middle half of Elmwood Park residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 50 and 71; the typical (median) resident's is 64.
- 0–5026.3%
- 50–10066.9%
- 100–2006.8%
- 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 8.7% 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.
Elmwood Park against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,137 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Elmwood Park; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Elmwood Park 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, River Grove (1 mi), is about Elmwood Park's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Elmwood Park
What are the most common crimes in Elmwood Park?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 85 a year), other larceny (about 76 a year) and shoplifting (about 42 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 34% 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. Elmwood Park's figures add up its 21 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Elmwood Park 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: 23,775. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Elmwood Park, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/elmwood-park
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- River Grove1 mi72
- River Forest2 mi94
- Melrose Park3 mi63
- Norridge3 mi170
- Harwood Heights3 mi98
- Oak Park3 mi186
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