Photo: Dennisyerger84 · CC BY-SA 4.0On violent crime, Arlington Heights has a lower rate per resident than 82% of U.S. towns
One of the 6 towns next door with figures records less crime per resident. The graded rate fell 23% from 2023 to 2025. Across all the graded crimes, Arlington Heights lands on B+ (#131 of 339 graded towns in Illinois): less crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 0.6 violent crime and 8.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 3.1 and 18.9 in the rest of Illinois.
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. “Rest of IL” is every other Illinois city and town in the FBI’s tables; the U.S. figure is the FBI’s national estimate as published, averaged over the three years. The FBI publishes no national homicide or robbery rate in our data, so those compare with all U.S. cities and towns in its tables.
What stands out about safety in Arlington Heights
1 of the 6 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 8 Illinois towns on Arlington Heights’ borders, 6 have a Safety Grade: Buffalo Grove (A−), Prospect Heights (B+), Palatine (B+), Mount Prospect (B+), Wheeling (B+), Rolling Meadows (B−). Palatine Township and Wheeling Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Reported crime is falling
Crime reported per resident fell from 2023 to 2025 by more than ordinary year-to-year swings, on the grade’s own score. Trend ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Arlington Heights’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Both violent and property crime are lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Arlington Heights | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.5 | 3.3 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Arlington Heights’ police reported 127 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.6 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.1 in the rest of Illinois and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Arlington Heights property | Rest of Illinois property | Arlington Heights violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.8 | 20.6 | 0.7 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 9.4 | 19.6 | 0.8 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 8.8 | 19.9 | 0.5 | 3.3 |
| 2025 | 7.5 | 17.2 | 0.4 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Illinois.
Crime in Arlington Heights per 1,000 residents
Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025
Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.
And fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
589 crimes reported in 2025
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
28 violent and 561 property, as reported to the FBI by Arlington Heights’ police.
14 people died in crashes on Arlington Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Arlington Heights had 14 fatal crashes in five years, in which 14 people died; 2 were pedestrians and 1 was a cyclist. 1 died in crash on an Interstate.
That is 3.7 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, below the median for Illinois towns of 25,000–100,000 people (5.1, 150 towns).
Deaths are counted where the crash happened, not where the people lived: a highway through town adds through-traffic deaths, and residents’ own risk on roads elsewhere isn’t here. Town rates sit below state and U.S. rates because a third of fatal crashes happen outside any town. Road safety is described here and is not part of the Safety Grade. Source: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023.
Arlington Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Heights | B+ | 0.6 | 8.5 |
| Prospect Heights | B+ | 1.2 | 6.5 |
| Mount Prospect | B+ | 0.8 | 8.9 |
| Rolling Meadows | B− | 0.9 | 13.9 |
| Buffalo Grove | A− | 0.3 | 6.1 |
| Palatine | B+ | 0.9 | 8.6 |
| Wheeling | B+ | 0.9 | 8.9 |
| Palatine Township | — | — | — |
| Wheeling Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Palatine Township and Wheeling Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arlington Heights | B+ | 0.6 | 8.5 |
| Bolingbrook | B | 2.1 | 7.7 |
| Cicero | C+ | 2.7 | 11.4 |
| Schaumburg | C+ | 0.8 | 20.2 |
| Evanston | C− | 1.4 | 27.4 |
| Decatur | D | 6.5 | 26.6 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Arlington Heights’ population (76,216), by grade.
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- It’s reported crime. Only incidents reported to and recorded by police appear here. Many crimes are never reported to police.
- One number for all of Arlington Heights. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Arlington Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (75,155 in 2025); our figure for Arlington Heights is 76,216 (2025 Census estimate).
- Gaps are real gaps. A missing year means the department didn’t report a full year, not that nothing happened.
How the grade is calculated, for every town: How TownRatings grades safety →
Questions about safety in Arlington Heights
Is Arlington Heights, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Arlington Heights reports less crime per resident than 72% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #131 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 0.6 violent crimes per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.1 in the rest of Illinois and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
What is the crime rate in Arlington Heights?
0.6 violent and 8.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Illinois reports 3.1 and 18.9; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Arlington Heights in 2025?
Arlington Heights’s police reported 1 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 1.3 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Arlington Heights safer than Prospect Heights?
Prospect Heights reports more crime per resident than Arlington Heights: Prospect Heights grades B+ for safety and Arlington Heights B+. Prospect Heights’s police reported 1.2 violent and 6.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Arlington Heights?
Arlington Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Arlington Heights”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 2025, and state and national rates. Counts are crimes reported to police, not convictions. The Safety Grade is our own summary of that data, not an official rating. Road deaths: NHTSA Fatality Analysis Reporting System (FARS), 2019–2023. This isn’t an official statement of public safety. In an emergency, call 911.