CrimeMetric

Crime in Greenville, Illinois

Major crime in Greenville is 44% below the U.S. rate per resident: 70% lower for persons crimes and 38% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
57
44% below the U.S. rate
40% below the Illinois rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
30
70% below the U.S. rate
57% below the Illinois rate
down 4.6% in a year
Property crimes
62
38% below the U.S. rate
37% below the Illinois rate
down 7.9% in a year
Social disorder
37
63% below the U.S. rate
66% below the Illinois rate
down 6.4% 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

Other larceny stands out most, at 26% above the U.S. rate

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

Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live

IndexPer year

How crime varies across Greenville

The middle half of Greenville residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 29 and 62; the typical (median) resident's is 49.

Map of Greenville, with its census block groups shaded by major-crime index band
Block groups shaded by major-crime index, in the bar's bands below; pale gray where fewer than 100 people live. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5051.1%
  • 50–10042.3%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4006.6%
  • 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 6pm66
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am46
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm59
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am52
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Illinois it fell 9.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%IL -9.6%-13.2%IL -14.2%
Persons crimes-4.6%IL -14.4%-0.8%IL -6.8%
Property crimes-7.9%IL -8.9%-14.5%IL -15.4%
Social disorder-6.4%IL -12.0%-7.2%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

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

1,208 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Greenville; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:

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

Nearby places

Greenville 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, Vandalia (17 mi), is 1.7 times Greenville's rate.

Centralia29 mi219
Vandalia17 mi96
Litchfield24 mi72
Carlyle19 mi62
Greenville57
Nokomis29 mi56
Hillsboro18 mi33
Troy29 mi30
Highland18 mi28

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

Questions about crime in Greenville

What are the most common crimes in Greenville?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 45 a year), theft from vehicle (about 8 a year) and aggravated assault (about 5 a year). Compared with the U.S., other larceny stands out most: 26% 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. Greenville's figures add up its 5 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Greenville 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: 7,219. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100