Crime in University Park, Illinois
Major crime in University Park is 24% below the U.S. rate per resident: 40% lower for persons crimes and 21% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 10.3% 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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Vandalism stands out most, at 3.2 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in University Park 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
Neighborhoods in University Park
University Park is made up of 4 census block groups. The typical resident lives where the major-crime index is 65; the middle half of residents live where it is between 55 and 81.
- 0–500.0%
- 50–10087.0%
- 100–20013.0%
- 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.
Highest at night
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 10.3% 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.
University Park against U.S. places with 5,000 to 10,000 residents
856 of the 2,163 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than University Park; the middle of the group is 63. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
University Park 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, Park Forest (3 mi), is about University Park's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in University Park
What are the most common crimes in University Park?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 35 a year), motor vehicle theft (about 21 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 14 a year). Compared with the U.S., vandalism stands out most: 3.2 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. University Park's figures add up its 4 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- University Park 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: 6,866. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in University Park, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/university-park
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
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