Photo: formulanone · CC BY-SA 2.0Recorded crime per resident in Farmer City fell 66% from 2023 to 2025
Measured on crimes Farmer City’s police reported between 2023 and 2025, it earns a Safety Grade of C+. What’s more, recorded violent crimes ran at 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year and property crime at 11.6, against 3.1 and 18.8 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 Farmer City
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 Farmer City’s 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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.1) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns. Its property rate (11.6) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Farmer City property | Rest of Illinois property | Farmer City violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.4 | 20.5 | 1.1 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 19.5 | 19.5 | 3.3 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 10.5 | 19.8 | 3.3 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 5.0 | 17.1 | 2.8 | 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 Farmer City 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 about 3 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Farmer City | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.1 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.8 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Farmer City’s police reported 17 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.1 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.1 in the rest of Illinois and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
14 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.
5 violent and 9 property, as reported to the FBI by Farmer City’s police.
One person died in crashes on Farmer City’s roads in 2019–2023
Farmer City had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died. Most of these deaths (1 of 1) were on an Interstate passing through, so they say more about through-traffic than about the town’s own streets.
That is about what is typical for Illinois towns of 2,500–5,000 people: at their median rate (7.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Farmer City’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Farmer City’s own rate (10.6) is context, not a ranking.
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.
Farmer City and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer City | C+ | 3.1 | 11.6 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Farmer City | C+ | 3.1 | 11.6 |
| Hudson | A+ | 0.4 | 0.6 |
| New Athens | A | 0.4 | 5.0 |
| Somonauk | A− | 0.4 | 6.3 |
| Mackinaw | A− | 0.5 | 7.8 |
| South Roxana | C+ | 2.3 | 11.9 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Farmer City’s population (1,797), 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 Farmer City. A town-wide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of town to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Farmer City’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,814 in 2025); our figure for Farmer City is 1,797 (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 Farmer City
Is Farmer City, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Farmer City reports more crime per resident than 63% of U.S. towns, a C+ Safety Grade. Its police reported 3.1 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 Farmer City?
3.1 violent and 11.6 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Illinois reports 3.1 and 18.8; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
Who polices Farmer City?
Farmer City’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Farmer City”. 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.