Crime in North Chicago, Illinois
Major crime in North Chicago is 59% below the U.S. rate per resident: 53% lower for persons crimes and 60% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.4% 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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Weapons violations stand out most, at 2.0 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in North Chicago 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 North Chicago
The middle half of North Chicago residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 8 and 63; the typical (median) resident's is 45.
- 0–5054.0%
- 50–10045.1%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4000.9%
- 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 weeknights
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.4% 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.
North Chicago against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
802 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than North Chicago; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
North Chicago has a higher major-crime index than 5 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Lake Bluff (2 mi), is 41% above North Chicago's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in North Chicago
What are the most common crimes in North Chicago?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are theft from vehicle (about 77 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 39 a year) and other larceny (about 39 a year). Compared with the U.S., weapons violations stands out most: 2.0 times 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. North Chicago's figures add up its 19 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- North Chicago has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 21.9% 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: 34,421. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in North Chicago, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/north-chicago
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Lake Bluff2 mi58
- Park City3 mi39
- Waukegan4 mi105
- Lake Forest5 mi28
- Libertyville6 mi20
- Gurnee6 mi68
- Gages Lake7 mi20
- Beach Park7 mi29