Crime in Vernon Hills, Illinois
Major crime in Vernon Hills is 46% below the U.S. rate per resident: 79% lower for persons crimes and 39% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are down 13.1% 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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Shoplifting stands out most, at 26% above the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in Vernon Hills 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 Vernon Hills
The middle half of Vernon Hills residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 18 and 92; the typical (median) resident's is 36. The citywide figure (54) is higher than that because crime concentrates in a smaller set of areas.
- 0–5061.2%
- 50–10027.0%
- 100–20011.8%
- 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 on weekend daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime fell 13.1% 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.
Vernon Hills against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
677 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than Vernon Hills; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
Vernon Hills has a higher major-crime index than 6 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Mundelein (3 mi), is 48% below Vernon Hills's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in Vernon Hills
What are the most common crimes in Vernon Hills?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are shoplifting (about 106 a year), other larceny (about 70 a year) and theft from vehicle (about 20 a year). Compared with the U.S., shoplifting stands out most: 26% 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. Vernon Hills's figures add up its 13 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- Vernon Hills has no published incident records in our data, so its estimate relies on agency totals and neighborhood characteristics.
- 25.9% 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: 26,499. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in Vernon Hills, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/vernon-hills
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