Crime in Palos Heights, Illinois
Major crime in Palos Heights is 54% below the U.S. rate per resident: 83% lower for persons crimes and 48% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 8.2% 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 Palos Heights is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Palos Heights 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 Palos Heights
The middle half of Palos Heights residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 21 and 69; the typical (median) resident's is 29. The citywide figure (46) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5067.3%
- 50–10027.0%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4005.7%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 8.2% 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.
Palos Heights against U.S. places with 10,000 to 25,000 residents
1,588 of the 2,149 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Palos Heights; the middle of the group is 72. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Palos Heights 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, Worth (2 mi), is 30% above Palos Heights's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Palos Heights
What are the most common crimes in Palos Heights?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 38 a year), shoplifting (about 30 a year) and burglary (about 6 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 18% 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. Palos Heights's figures add up its 10 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Palos Heights 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: 11,322. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Palos Heights, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/palos-heights
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Worth2 mi60
- Crestwood3 mi109
- Chicago Ridge3 mi97
- Palos Hills3 mi38
- Alsip3 mi157
- Oak Forest4 mi24
- Oak Lawn4 mi94
- Orland Park4 mi49