Photo: Zagalejo · CC BY-SA 3.0Harwood Heights has no grade of its own; Elmwood Park, 3 miles away, is the nearest that does
Harwood Heights’ police reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The surrounding 10 miles hold 36 graded places to compare with.
For every 1,000 residents, about 18 property crimes reported
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.
The years Harwood Heights’ police reported
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| Year | Harwood Heights | Rest of Illinois | Harwood Heights | Rest of Illinois |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | 20.5 | not reported | 3.7 |
| 2023 | not reported | 19.5 | not reported | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 12.8 | 19.8 | 1.2 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 18.1 | 17.1 | 1.3 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents, against the rest of Illinois. A year the department didn’t report in full is a gap, not a zero.
168 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.
11 violent and 157 property, as reported to the FBI by Harwood Heights’ police.
The nearest Illinois towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmwood Park | B | 3 mi | 1.3 | 11.2 |
| River Grove | B− | 3 mi | 1.3 | 13.4 |
| Park Ridge | B+ | 4 mi | 0.6 | 7.8 |
| Rosemont | D− | 4 mi | 4.6 | 57.8 |
| Niles | C+ | 4 mi | 0.5 | 19.8 |
| Franklin Park | B− | 4 mi | 1.5 | 12.5 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Harwood Heights. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Harwood Heights.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Two people died in crashes on Harwood Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Harwood Heights had 2 fatal crashes in five years, in which two people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Harwood Heights’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Harwood Heights’s own rate (4.5) 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.
Harwood Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norridge | — | — | — |
| Norwood Park Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Norridge reported to the FBI for 2024 and 2025 but not 2023. Norwood Park Township has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
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 Harwood Heights. 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 Harwood Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (8,688 in 2025); our figure for Harwood Heights is 8,761 (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 Harwood Heights
Is Harwood Heights, IL safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Harwood Heights. The nearest Illinois towns with a grade are Elmwood Park (B, 3 mi), River Grove (B−, 3 mi), Park Ridge (B+, 4 mi).
Who polices Harwood Heights?
Harwood Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Harwood Heights”. Its figures are the ones on this page.
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Neighbors looking out for each other in Harwood Heights.
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.