Photo: Nyttend · Public domainViolent crime per resident is lower in Greenville than in 68% of U.S. towns
Out of every 1,000 residents, 1.0 violent crime and 9.1 incidents of property crime are reported annually, against 3.1 and 18.8 in the rest of Illinois. Scored on crimes Greenville’s police reported across 2023 to 2025, the town lands on B+ for safety: #168 of 339 graded towns in 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 Greenville
Among Illinois towns, closer to the middle
Illinois’ cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Greenville’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 50% of the 339 Illinois towns we grade, against 65% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A college town
Greenville is home to Greenville University, with 816 students taking classes on campus (federal college data), and 14% of residents are enrolled in college (Census). Students who live in town count as residents, so they are part of the per-resident rate. How to read it ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Greenville’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 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 | Greenville | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.1 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.1 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.0 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.8 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Greenville’s police reported 21 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.1 in the rest of Illinois and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Crime in Greenville 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 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Greenville property | Rest of Illinois property | Greenville violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.9 | 20.5 | 1.1 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 6.8 | 19.5 | 1.1 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 10.2 | 19.8 | 1.0 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 10.1 | 17.1 | 0.8 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings. Per 1,000 residents, 2022–2025, against the rest of Illinois.
78 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.
6 violent and 72 property, as reported to the FBI by Greenville’s police.
Four people died in crashes on Greenville’s roads in 2019–2023
Greenville had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which four people died. Most of these deaths (2 of 4) 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 5,000–25,000 people: at their median rate (6.8 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Greenville’s size would see about 2 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Greenville’s own rate (11.1) 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.
Greenville and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville | B+ | 1.0 | 9.1 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenville | B+ | 1.0 | 9.1 |
| Inverness | A | 0.3 | 3.0 |
| Sandwich | A | 0.6 | 2.7 |
| Marengo | B | 1.8 | 6.3 |
| Princeton | B | 0.3 | 13.2 |
| Robinson | C | 2.9 | 16.0 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Greenville’s population (7,469), 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 Greenville. 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 Greenville’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (7,100 in 2025); our figure for Greenville is 7,469 (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 Greenville
Is Greenville, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Greenville reports less crime per resident than 65% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #168 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 1.0 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 Greenville?
1.0 violent and 9.1 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 Greenville?
Greenville’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Greenville”. 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.