Crime in Polo, Illinois
Major crime in Polo is 81% below the U.S. rate per resident: 63% lower for persons crimes and 85% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 7.7% 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 Polo is near or below the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Polo for each type, and the index against the U.S. rate per resident.
Citywide indexWhere the middle half of residents live
Social disorder
Neighborhoods in Polo
Polo is made up of 3 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 18; the middle half of residents live where it is between 14 and 26.
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- 100–2000.0%
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Share of residents by the index of their census block group, a neighborhood of roughly 600 to 3,000 people.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 7.7% 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.
Polo against U.S. places with 2,000 to 5,000 residents
1,718 of the 1,761 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Polo; the middle of the group is 58. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Polo 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, Mount Morris (9 mi), is 31% above Polo's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Polo
What are the most common crimes in Polo?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are aggravated assault (about 2 a year), other larceny (about 2 a year) and burglary (about 1 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault 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. Polo's figures add up its 3 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Polo 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: 2,239. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Polo, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/polo
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Mount Morris9 mi25
- Dixon10 mi27
- Oregon13 mi62
- Sterling14 mi66
- Rock Falls16 mi151
- Freeport22 mi75
- Amboy22 mi33
- Morrison23 mi33