Crime in Lyons, Illinois
Major crime in Lyons is 61% below the U.S. rate per resident: about the same for persons crimes and 74% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 26.3% 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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Aggravated assault and rape / sexual assault stand out most, at about 18% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Lyons 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 Lyons
The middle half of Lyons residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 22 and 67; the typical (median) resident's is 36.
- 0–5069.0%
- 50–10031.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 26.3% 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.
Lyons against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,737 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Lyons; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Lyons has a higher major-crime index than 2 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Riverside (1 mi), is 43% above Lyons's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Lyons
What are the most common crimes in Lyons?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 28 a year), shoplifting (about 17 a year) and other larceny (about 8 a year). Compared with the U.S., aggravated assault stands out most: 18% 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. Lyons's figures add up its 8 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Lyons 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: 10,426. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Lyons, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/lyons
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Riverside1 mi56
- Brookfield1 mi29
- Stickney2 mi40
- Summit2 mi65
- North Riverside2 mi221
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