Crime in Salem, Illinois
Major crime in Salem is 8% below the U.S. rate per resident: 13% lower for persons crimes and 7% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 9.5% 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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Rape / sexual assault stands out most, at 3.5 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Salem 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 Salem
The middle half of Salem residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 46 and 80; the typical (median) resident's is 78. The citywide figure (92) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5036.3%
- 50–10044.3%
- 100–2007.6%
- 200–40011.8%
- 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 9.5% 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.
Salem against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
632 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Salem; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Salem 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, Centralia (12 mi), is 2.4 times Salem's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Salem
What are the most common crimes in Salem?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are burglary (about 30 a year), other larceny (about 26 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 24 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 3.5 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. Salem's figures add up its 7 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Salem has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 11.8% 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: 7,293. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Salem, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/salem
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Centralia12 mi219
- Mount Vernon22 mi96
- Carlyle23 mi62
- Vandalia25 mi96
- Flora25 mi52
- Greenville30 mi57
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