Crime in Mount Prospect, Illinois
Major crime in Mount Prospect is 53% below the U.S. rate per resident: 82% lower for persons crimes and 47% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.0% 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 Mount Prospect is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Mount Prospect 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 Mount Prospect
The middle half of Mount Prospect residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 61; the typical (median) resident's is 30. The citywide figure (47) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5072.7%
- 50–10014.8%
- 100–2009.1%
- 200–4003.4%
- 400+0.0%
Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.0% 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.
Mount Prospect against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
486 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Mount Prospect; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Mount Prospect 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, Des Plaines (3 mi), is about Mount Prospect's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Mount Prospect
What are the most common crimes in Mount Prospect?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 145 a year), shoplifting (about 114 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 79 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: about 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. Mount Prospect's figures add up its 38 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Mount Prospect's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 7.1% 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: 52,942. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Mount Prospect, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/mount-prospect
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Des Plaines3 mi48
- Arlington Heights3 mi51
- Prospect Heights3 mi41
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- Wheeling5 mi49
- Elk Grove Village5 mi66
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