Photo: Kman2005 · CC BY-SA 4.0Gurnee reports more crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns
On crimes reported to the FBI by Gurnee’s police in 2023–2025, it grades C for safety: #261 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 Gurnee
Gurnee reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 7 Illinois towns on Gurnee’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Waukegan (C). Gages Lake and Grandwood Park are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own. Park City, Warren Township, Wadsworth and Third Lake have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
A job center
Gurnee has 18,576 jobs based in town for 30,458 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Gurnee’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (1.7) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
Gurnee’s police reported 154 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.7 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.1 in the rest of Illinois and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
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| Year | Gurnee | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.1 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.7 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 1.2 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Reported crime is falling
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.
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| Year | Gurnee property | Rest of Illinois property | Gurnee violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 25.3 | 20.5 | 1.1 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 21.6 | 19.5 | 2.2 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 22.4 | 19.8 | 1.7 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 19.7 | 17.1 | 1.2 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
For every 1,000 residents, about 20 property crimes reported
And about 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
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.
639 crimes reported in 2025
37 violent and 602 property, as reported to the FBI by Gurnee’s police.
2025 offenses reported
Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.
16 people died in crashes on Gurnee’s roads in 2019–2023
Gurnee had 13 fatal crashes in five years, in which 16 people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is 10.5 deaths per 100,000 residents a year, above 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.
Gurnee and its neighbors
How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gurnee | C | 1.7 | 21.2 |
| Waukegan | C | 3.9 | 14.2 |
| Gages Lake | — | — | — |
| Grandwood Park | — | — | — |
| Park City | — | — | — |
| Warren Township | — | — | — |
| Wadsworth | — | — | — |
| Third Lake | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Gages Lake and Grandwood Park are unincorporated communities (census-designated places) with no police department of their own. Park City, Warren Township, Wadsworth and Third Lake have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
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 Gurnee. 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 Gurnee’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (30,518 in 2025); our figure for Gurnee is 30,458 (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 Gurnee
Is Gurnee, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Gurnee reports more crime per resident than 69% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #261 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 1.7 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 Gurnee?
1.7 violent and 21.2 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.
Is crime going up or down in Gurnee?
Reported crime per resident fell from 2023 to 2025, by more than ordinary year-to-year swings.
How many homicides were there in Gurnee in 2025?
Gurnee’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Gurnee safer than Waukegan?
Waukegan reports more crime per resident than Gurnee: Waukegan grades C for safety and Gurnee C. Waukegan’s police reported 3.9 violent and 14.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Gurnee?
Gurnee’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Gurnee”. 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.