Crime in Palatine, Illinois
Major crime in Palatine is 57% below the U.S. rate per resident: 74% lower for persons crimes and 53% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 12.6% 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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Simple assault stands out most, at 20% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Palatine 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 Palatine
The middle half of Palatine residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 52; the typical (median) resident's is 31. The citywide figure (43) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5072.2%
- 50–10018.9%
- 100–2008.9%
- 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.
Highest in the daytime
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 12.6% 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.
Palatine against U.S. places with 50,000 to 100,000 residents
503 of the 540 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Palatine; the middle of the group is 92. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Palatine has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Rolling Meadows (4 mi), is 1.9 times Palatine's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Palatine
What are the most common crimes in Palatine?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 218 a year), shoplifting (about 120 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 53 a year). Compared with the U.S., simple assault stands out most: 20% above 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. Palatine's figures add up its 45 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Palatine's published incident records inform the estimate for every neighborhood.
- 12.7% 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: 67,903. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Palatine, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/palatine
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Rolling Meadows4 mi80
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- Lake Zurich5 mi51
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- Barrington5 mi30
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