Photo: Indy beetle · CC BY-SA 4.0On violent crime, Mount Prospect has a lower rate per resident than 74% of U.S. towns
2 of the 3 towns next door with figures record less crime per resident. Overall, Mount Prospect grades B+ for safety (#158 of 339 graded towns in Illinois): less crime per resident than 67% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Police counts work out at 0.8 violent crime and 8.9 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Illinois they are 3.1 and 18.9. Per resident, the graded crimes were down 25% from 2023 to 2025.
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 Mount Prospect
2 of the 3 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 3 Illinois towns on Mount Prospect’s borders, 3 have a Safety Grade: Arlington Heights (B+), Prospect Heights (B+), Des Plaines (B). Neighbors ↓
Among Illinois towns, closer to the middle
Illinois’ cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Mount Prospect’s place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 53% of the 339 Illinois towns we grade, against 67% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
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 Mount Prospect’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 | Mount Prospect | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.7 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Mount Prospect’s police reported 132 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.8 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.1 in the rest of Illinois and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Mount Prospect property | Rest of Illinois property | Mount Prospect violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 9.5 | 20.6 | 0.7 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 10.1 | 19.6 | 1.0 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 8.9 | 19.9 | 0.9 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 7.9 | 17.1 | 0.5 | 2.7 |
Crimes per 1,000 residents
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.
Crime in Mount Prospect 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.
463 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.
28 violent and 435 property, as reported to the FBI by Mount Prospect’s police.
Nine people died in crashes on Mount Prospect’s roads in 2019–2023
Mount Prospect had 7 fatal crashes in five years, in which nine people died; 2 were pedestrians.
That is about what is typical for Illinois towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Mount Prospect’s size would see about 14 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Mount Prospect’s own rate (3.2) 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.
Mount Prospect and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Prospect | B+ | 0.8 | 8.9 |
| Arlington Heights | B+ | 0.6 | 8.5 |
| Des Plaines | B | 1.2 | 9.2 |
| Prospect Heights | B+ | 1.2 | 6.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Prospect | B+ | 0.8 | 8.9 |
| Wheaton | A | 0.4 | 4.9 |
| Berwyn | B+ | 1.0 | 7.8 |
| Tinley Park | B | 1.0 | 11.6 |
| Oak Lawn | B− | 1.3 | 15.6 |
| Normal | C | 3.0 | 16.0 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Mount Prospect’s population (55,395), 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 Mount Prospect. A citywide rate doesn’t show where incidents happen, and that can differ a lot from one part of the city to another.
- Visitors count too. Incidents involving people who work, shop or visit are counted against Mount Prospect’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (55,157 in 2025); our figure for Mount Prospect is 55,395 (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 Mount Prospect
Is Mount Prospect, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Mount Prospect reports less crime per resident than 67% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #158 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 0.8 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 Mount Prospect?
0.8 violent and 8.9 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025, as reported to the FBI. The rest of Illinois reports 3.1 and 18.9; the FBI’s national estimate is 3.6 and 17.6.
How many homicides were there in Mount Prospect in 2025?
Mount Prospect’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 Mount Prospect safer than Arlington Heights?
Arlington Heights reports less crime per resident than Mount Prospect: Arlington Heights grades B+ for safety and Mount Prospect B+. Arlington Heights’s police reported 0.6 violent and 8.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Mount Prospect?
Mount Prospect’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Mount Prospect”. 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.