Crime in Harwood Heights, Illinois
Major crime in Harwood Heights is about the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 12% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.1% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 1.9 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Harwood Heights 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 Harwood Heights
The middle half of Harwood Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 167; the typical (median) resident's is 100.
- 0–5048.5%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20039.8%
- 200–40011.7%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.1% 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.
Harwood Heights against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
573 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Harwood Heights; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Harwood Heights has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Norridge (1 mi), is 1.7 times Harwood Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Harwood Heights
What are the most common crimes in Harwood Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 52 a year), other larceny (about 28 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 27 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 1.9 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. Harwood Heights's figures add up its 6 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Harwood Heights 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: 8,490. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Harwood Heights, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/harwood-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Norridge1 mi170
- Elmwood Park3 mi69
- River Grove3 mi72
- Schiller Park3 mi36
- Park Ridge4 mi38
- Franklin Park4 mi64
- Lincolnwood5 mi102
- Niles5 mi87