CrimeMetric

Crime in New Lenox, Illinois

Major crime in New Lenox is 58% below the U.S. rate per resident: 80% lower for persons crimes and 54% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 21.9% from a year earlier.

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

Major crime
42
58% below the U.S. rate
55% below the Illinois rate
down 21.9% in a year
Persons crimes
20
80% below the U.S. rate
70% below the Illinois rate
down 11.9% in a year
Property crimes
46
54% below the U.S. rate
53% below the Illinois rate
down 22.7% in a year
Social disorder
42
58% below the U.S. rate
61% below the Illinois rate
down 15.4% in a year

Index: crimes per resident compared with the U.S., where 100 is the U.S. rate and 200 is twice it.

Check an address in New Lenox

Crime by type

Every crime type in New Lenox is near or below the U.S. rate

Expected crimes per year in New Lenox 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 New Lenox

The middle half of New Lenox residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 19 and 40; the typical (median) resident's is 28. The citywide figure (42) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.

Map of New Lenox, 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. Tap one to compare it. Highways and boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau.
  • 0–5078.5%
  • 50–10015.9%
  • 100–2000.0%
  • 200–4005.6%
  • 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 6pm49
Sunday to Thursday nights, 6pm to 6am36
Saturday and Sunday, 6am to 6pm47
Friday and Saturday nights, 6pm to 6am28
Trend and outlook

Major crime fell 21.9% in a year; across Illinois it fell 9.6%

Past yearBy 2031
Major crime-21.9%IL -9.6%-12.6%IL -14.2%
Persons crimes-11.9%IL -14.4%+1.1%IL -6.8%
Property crimes-22.7%IL -8.9%-13.9%IL -15.4%
Social disorder-15.4%IL -12.0%-3.2%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

New Lenox against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents

797 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than New Lenox; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:

Raytown, MO29,372169
Mehlville, MO29,536106
Saugus, MA29,38178
Belmont, CA29,50264
New Lenox, IL29,46042
Pace, FL29,36439

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

Nearby places

New Lenox has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors

The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Ingalls Park (4 mi), is 12% above New Lenox's rate.

Fairmont6 mi50
New Lenox42
Mokena4 mi35
Frankfort6 mi33
Manhattan5 mi22
Lockport7 mi22

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

Questions about crime in New Lenox

What are the most common crimes in New Lenox?

By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 65 a year), shoplifting (about 65 a year) and burglary (about 28 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 31% 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. New Lenox's figures add up its 17 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.

  • New Lenox 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: 29,460. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2

Full method and validation·Data sources

Cite this page

CrimeMetric. "Crime in New Lenox, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/new-lenox

Use these numbers in your product

Any U.S. address by API or MCP, free for 10,000 lookups a month.

Get a free API key

Nearest cities we publish

Major-crime index, U.S. = 100