CrimeMetric

Crime in Morris, Illinois

Major crime in Morris is 35% below the U.S. rate per resident: 49% lower for persons crimes and 32% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.6% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
65
35% below the U.S. rate
31% below the Illinois rate
down 7.6% in a year
Persons crimes
51
49% below the U.S. rate
26% below the Illinois rate
down 4.5% in a year
Property crimes
68
32% below the U.S. rate
32% below the Illinois rate
down 8.1% in a year
Social disorder
74
26% below the U.S. rate
32% below the Illinois rate
down 6.1% 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

Shoplifting stands out most, at 16% above the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in Morris 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 Morris

The middle half of Morris residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 23 and 99; the typical (median) resident's is 31. The citywide figure (65) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of Morris, 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.
  • 0–5064.5%
  • 50–10013.2%
  • 100–20022.3%
  • 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.

When it happens

Highest on weekend daytimes

Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.

Monday to Friday, 6am to 6pm75
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am47
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm80
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am58
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 7.6% in a year; across Illinois it fell 9.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-7.6%IL -9.6%-12.1%IL -14.2%
Persons crimes-4.5%IL -14.4%+1.3%IL -6.8%
Property crimes-8.1%IL -8.9%-14.4%IL -15.4%
Social disorder-6.1%IL -12.0%-5.6%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

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

1,207 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Morris; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:

Belmont, NC14,968126
Brookside, DE14,979100
Sunset, FL14,96296
Yankton, SD14,94691
Morris, IL14,95365
Rendon, TX14,95149
Beacon, NY14,96439

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

Nearby places

Morris 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, Minooka (10 mi), is 70% below Morris's rate.

Joliet19 mi79
Morris65
Wilmington16 mi57
Marseilles14 mi38
Shorewood15 mi37
Coal City10 mi35
Braidwood13 mi32
Channahon11 mi29
Minooka10 mi19

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

Questions about crime in Morris

What are the most common crimes in Morris?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 55 a year), other larceny (about 50 a year) and aggravated assault (about 18 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 16% 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. Morris's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • Morris 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: 14,953. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

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

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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100