Crime in Oak Forest, Illinois
Major crime in Oak Forest is 76% below the U.S. rate per resident: 84% lower for persons crimes and 75% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 11.1% 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 Oak Forest is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Oak Forest 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 Oak Forest
The middle half of Oak Forest residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 11 and 34; the typical (median) resident's is 20. The citywide figure (24) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5093.2%
- 50–1006.8%
- 100–2000.0%
- 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.
Lowest on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 11.1% 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.
Oak Forest against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
944 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Oak Forest; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Oak Forest 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, Midlothian (2 mi), is 3.1 times Oak Forest's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Oak Forest
What are the most common crimes in Oak Forest?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 26 a year), other larceny (about 20 a year) and burglary (about 18 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 54% 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. Oak Forest's figures add up its 18 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Oak Forest 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: 26,410. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Oak Forest, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/oak-forest
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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