Photo: User:Teemu08 · CC BY-SA 3.0Homer Glen records less crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns
It has less violent crime than 94% of U.S. towns, and less property crime than 92%. From 2023 to 2025, crimes Homer Glen’s police reported put it at A+ for safety: #10 of 339 graded towns in Illinois. Each year brought 0.2 violent crime and 2.7 incidents of property crime for every 1,000 residents (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 Homer Glen
Homer Glen reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 5 Illinois towns on Homer Glen’s borders, 2 have a Safety Grade: Lockport (A−), Orland Park (B+). Homer Township, Orland Township and Lemont Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Homer Glen’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 | Homer Glen | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.2 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.2 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.3 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Homer Glen’s police reported 16 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.2 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 Homer Glen 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.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Homer Glen property | Rest of Illinois property | Homer Glen violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.8 | 20.6 | 0.4 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 2.6 | 19.6 | 0.2 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 2.8 | 19.9 | 0.2 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 2.8 | 17.1 | 0.3 | 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.
79 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.
8 violent and 71 property, as reported to the FBI by Homer Glen’s police.
Six people died in crashes on Homer Glen’s roads in 2019–2023
Homer Glen had 5 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died.
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 Homer Glen’s size would see about 8 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Homer Glen’s own rate (4.9) 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.
Homer Glen and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homer Glen | A+ | 0.2 | 2.7 |
| Homer Township | — | — | — |
| Lockport | A− | 0.6 | 5.2 |
| Orland Township | — | — | — |
| Orland Park | B+ | 0.2 | 10.1 |
| Lemont Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Homer Township, Orland Township and Lemont Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homer Glen | A+ | 0.2 | 2.7 |
| West Chicago | B+ | 1.5 | 6.2 |
| Belvidere | B+ | 1.8 | 4.8 |
| Morton Grove | B+ | 0.5 | 10.5 |
| Zion | C | 4.1 | 11.4 |
| Alton | D | 9.1 | 29.4 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Homer Glen’s population (24,873), 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 Homer Glen. 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 Homer Glen’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (24,941 in 2025); our figure for Homer Glen is 24,873 (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 Homer Glen
Is Homer Glen, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Homer Glen reports less crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns, an A+ Safety Grade and #10 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 0.2 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 Homer Glen?
0.2 violent and 2.7 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 Homer Glen safer than Lockport?
Lockport reports more crime per resident than Homer Glen: Lockport grades A− for safety and Homer Glen A+. Lockport’s police reported 0.6 violent and 5.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Homer Glen?
Homer Glen’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Homer Glen”. 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.