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Safety in Le Roy · FBI data, 2023–2025

Le Roy reports less crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns

On crimes reported to the FBI by Le Roy’s police in 2023–2025, it grades A for safety: #48 of 339 graded towns in Illinois.

Violent crime
0.9
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of IL (3.1)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
2.7
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of IL (18.8)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
37
9 violent · 28 property
2023–2025
Trend
→ Steady
2023 to 2025
within ordinary swings

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.

Safety Grade

What’s behind Le Roy’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; property crime is the stronger of the two.

Where Le Roy sits
B+ Violent 0.9A Property 2.7
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 88%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Illinois towns we grade (339)Less crime than 86% · #48 of 339
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 81%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 37 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put Le Roy anywhere from A− to A.

How TownRatings grades safety →

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

Le Roy’s police reported 9 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.9 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.1 in the rest of Illinois and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

1,000 neighbors · one year

For every 1,000 residents, about 2 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.

Property crime (2.3)Violent crime (0.9)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Le Roy0.9
Rest of IL2.7
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

Le Roy2.3
Rest of IL17.1
U.S. (FBI)15.5

Crimes reported to police in 2025 per resident; one person can be the victim of more than one, and some reports involve visitors.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

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.

Show as a table
YearLe Roy propertyRest of Illinois propertyLe Roy violentRest of Illinois violent
20226.720.50.93.7
20234.619.51.43.4
20241.219.80.33.2
20252.317.10.92.7

Crimes per 1,000 residents

What gets reported

11 crimes reported in 2025

3 violent and 8 property, as reported to the FBI by Le Roy’s police.

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft6
Burglary2
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault2
Robbery0
Rape1
Homicide0
Arson0
3
violent crimes
8
property crimes

Offenses reported to police, not convictions. FBI Uniform Crime Reporting. The last row is counted outside the property total.

On the roads

One person died in crashes on Le Roy’s roads in 2019–2023

Le Roy 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 Le Roy’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Le Roy’s own rate (6.2) is context, not a ranking.

1
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
6.2
per 100,000 a year · Illinois towns of 2,500–5,000: 7.1

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.

Next door

Le Roy and its neighbors

How reported crime compares across the town line. Tap a town to see its safety page.

Le Roy
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Le RoyA0.92.7

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Illinois towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
Le RoyA0.92.7
New BadenA0.72.1
OregonA−0.86.7
AledoB+0.88.3
FultonB+1.07.9
EldoradoC4.911.9

The five graded Illinois towns closest to Le Roy’s population (3,465), by grade.

How to read these numbers

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 Le Roy. 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 Le Roy’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (3,489 in 2025); our figure for Le Roy is 3,465 (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 Le Roy

Is Le Roy, IL safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Le Roy reports less crime per resident than 88% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #48 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 0.9 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 Le Roy?

0.9 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 crime going up or down in Le Roy?

Reported crime per resident was steady from 2023 to 2025: the change is within ordinary year-to-year swings.

Who polices Le Roy?

Le Roy’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Le Roy”. 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.