Crime in Lake Zurich, Illinois
Major crime in Lake Zurich is 49% below the U.S. rate per resident: 77% lower for persons crimes and 43% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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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No crime type in Lake Zurich is more than 10% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lake Zurich 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 Lake Zurich
The middle half of Lake Zurich residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 16 and 68; the typical (median) resident's is 33. The citywide figure (51) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5064.8%
- 50–10025.4%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4009.8%
- 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 weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.7% 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.
Lake Zurich against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,476 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lake Zurich; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lake Zurich has a higher major-crime index than 7 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Barrington (3 mi), is 41% below Lake Zurich's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lake Zurich
What are the most common crimes in Lake Zurich?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 82 a year), other larceny (about 55 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 31 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 10% 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. Lake Zurich's figures add up its 12 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lake Zurich 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: 23,350. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lake Zurich, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/lake-zurich
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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