Crime in Harrisburg, Illinois
Major crime in Harrisburg is 60% below the U.S. rate per resident: 69% lower for persons crimes and 58% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.4% 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 Harrisburg
Shoplifting stands out most, at 43% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Harrisburg 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 Harrisburg
The middle half of Harrisburg residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 11 and 42; the typical (median) resident's is 17. The citywide figure (40) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5075.9%
- 50–10011.3%
- 100–20012.8%
- 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 7.4% 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.
Harrisburg against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
1,626 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Harrisburg; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Harrisburg 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, Eldorado (8 mi), is 2.5 times Harrisburg's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Harrisburg
What are the most common crimes in Harrisburg?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 37 a year), aggravated assault (about 5 a year) and other larceny (about 4 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 43% 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. Harrisburg's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Harrisburg 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: 8,199. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Harrisburg, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/harrisburg
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
- Eldorado8 mi102
- Marion21 mi169
- Johnston City21 mi129
- West Frankfort23 mi74
- McLeansboro25 mi20
- Herrin27 mi116
- Benton29 mi100
- Carterville30 mi62