CrimeMetric

Crime in Lincolnwood, Illinois

Major crime in Lincolnwood is about the U.S. rate per resident: 64% lower for persons crimes and 16% higher for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.5% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
102
about the U.S. rate
9% above the Illinois rate
down 8.5% in a year
Persons crimes
37
64% below the U.S. rate
47% below the Illinois rate
down 6.1% in a year
Property crimes
116
16% above the U.S. rate
18% above the Illinois rate
down 8.7% in a year
Social disorder
61
39% below the U.S. rate
44% below the Illinois rate
down 6.9% 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

Theft from vehicle stands out most, at 1.7 times the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Lincolnwood 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 Lincolnwood

The middle half of Lincolnwood residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 38 and 117; the typical (median) resident's is 56. The citywide figure (102) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Lincolnwood, 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.
  • 0–5049.3%
  • 50–10017.1%
  • 100–20014.2%
  • 200–40019.4%
  • 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 6pm136
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am70
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm113
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am63
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 8.5% in a year; across Illinois it fell 9.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-8.5%IL -9.6%-17.5%IL -14.2%
Persons crimes-6.1%IL -14.4%-9.8%IL -6.8%
Property crimes-8.7%IL -8.9%-18.0%IL -15.4%
Social disorder-6.9%IL -12.0%-12.2%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

Lincolnwood against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents

651 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lincolnwood; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Derby, CT13,076124
Lincolnwood, IL13,092102
Sandy, OR13,07767
Douglas, GA13,07360
Fulton, MO13,07234
Mahomet, IL13,11724

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

Nearby places

Lincolnwood has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Skokie (2 mi), is 1.5 times Lincolnwood's rate.

Norridge5 mi170
Skokie2 mi154
Evanston3 mi106
Lincolnwood102
Niles5 mi87
Wilmette5 mi47

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

Questions about crime in Lincolnwood

What are the most common crimes in Lincolnwood?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 61 a year), shoplifting (about 57 a year) and other larceny (about 56 a year). Compared with the U.S., theft from vehicle stands out most: 1.7 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. Lincolnwood's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Lincolnwood 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: 13,092. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100