Crime in West Chicago, Illinois
Major crime in West Chicago is 57% below the U.S. rate per resident: 62% lower for persons crimes and 56% lower for property crimes. Expected major crimes are up 4.6% 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 1.8 times the U.S. rate
Expected crimes per year in West Chicago 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 West Chicago
The middle half of West Chicago residents live in neighborhoods with a major-crime index between 28 and 45; the typical (median) resident's is 40.
- 0–5081.7%
- 50–10017.3%
- 100–2000.0%
- 200–4001.0%
- 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 weekday daytimes
Major-crime index by time of week, against the U.S. rate for the same hours.
Major crime rose 4.6% 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.
West Chicago against U.S. places with 25,000 to 50,000 residents
789 of the 960 other places of this size have a higher major-crime index than West Chicago; the middle of the group is 77. The 9 nearest in population:
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; residents in gray.
West Chicago has a higher major-crime index than 4 of its 8 nearest neighbors
The 8 nearest cities and towns we cover, by major-crime index. The closest, Warrenville (4 mi), is 12% below West Chicago's rate.
Major-crime index per resident, U.S. = 100; distances between where residents live, in miles.
Questions about crime in West Chicago
What are the most common crimes in West Chicago?
By expected count, the most common persons and property crimes are other larceny (about 79 a year), theft from vehicle (about 29 a year) and shoplifting (about 19 a year). Compared with the U.S., rape / sexual assault stands out most: 1.8 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. West Chicago's figures add up its 15 block groups. The index compares crimes per resident with the U.S. rate.
- West Chicago 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: 25,768. Model updated Oct 20, 2026. Release 2026-2026-10-20-2
Full method and validation·Data sources
CrimeMetric. "Crime in West Chicago, Illinois." Vorp Labs, model updated Oct 20, 2026. https://crimemetric.com/il/west-chicago
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Major-crime index, U.S. = 100
- Warrenville4 mi38
- Carol Stream4 mi43
- St. Charles6 mi54
- Geneva6 mi49
- Wheaton6 mi34
- Bartlett6 mi19
- Batavia6 mi38
- Glendale Heights7 mi47