Crime in Morton, Illinois
Major crime in Morton is 63% below the U.S. rate per resident: 66% lower for persons crimes and 62% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.3% 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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Every crime type in Morton is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Morton 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 Morton
The middle half of Morton residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 12 and 32; the typical (median) resident's is 26. The citywide figure (37) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5082.7%
- 50–1000.0%
- 100–20017.3%
- 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.
About the same at every time of week
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.3% 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.
Morton against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,811 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Morton; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Morton has a lower major-crime index than all of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, East Peoria (6 mi), is 4.4 times Morton's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Morton
What are the most common crimes in Morton?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 29 a year), shoplifting (about 28 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 21% below 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. Morton's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Morton has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 10.1% 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: 18,984. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Morton, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/morton
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- East Peoria6 mi163
- Washington6 mi67
- Creve Coeur8 mi42
- Pekin10 mi118
- West Peoria11 mi214
- Bartonville11 mi113
- Peoria Heights11 mi120
- Peoria12 mi295