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Safety in North Utica · FBI data, 2023–2025

North Utica has less violent crime per resident than 98% of U.S. towns

Property crime ran at 7.0 per 1,000 residents a year (18.8 in the rest of Illinois). Overall, it grades A for safety.

Violent crime
0.0
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of IL (3.1)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 3.6
Property crime
7.0
per 1,000 a year · Well below rest of IL (18.8)
U.S. (FBI national estimate) 17.6
Crimes reported
28
0 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.

What stands out · In brief

What stands out about safety in North Utica

1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime

Of the 1 Illinois towns on North Utica’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: LaSalle (A). Neighbors ↓

A job center

North Utica has 854 jobs based in town for 1,334 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓

Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.

Safety Grade

What’s behind North Utica’s grade

Where North Utica sits
A+ Violent 0.0B+ Property 7.0
All U.S. towns we grade (7,426)Less crime than 85%
More reported crimeLess reported crime
Places of 1,000–5,000 people (2,448)Less crime than 77%
A fairly firm grade. Built on 28 reported crimes over three years. Ordinary swings could put North Utica anywhere from A− to A.

How TownRatings grades safety →

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.

1,000 neighbors · one year

Crime in North Utica per 1,000 residents

Property crime (8.2)Violent crime (0)Everyone else

Violent crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

North Utica0.0
Rest of IL2.7
U.S. (FBI)3.3

Property crime per 1,000 residents, 2025

North Utica8.2
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.

And no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.

Trend

Reported crime is steady

Show as a table
YearNorth Utica propertyRest of Illinois propertyNorth Utica violentRest of Illinois violent
20236.819.50.03.4
20246.019.80.03.2
20258.217.10.02.7

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, 2023–2025, against the rest of Illinois.

What gets reported

11 crimes reported in 2025

2025 offenses reported

Larceny / theft10
Burglary1
Vehicle theft0
Aggravated assault0
Robbery0
Rape0
Homicide0
Arson0
0
violent crimes
11
property crimes

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

0 violent and 11 property, as reported to the FBI by North Utica’s police.

Violent crime

Violent crime, by year and by type

North Utica’s police reported 0 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.0 per 1,000 residents a year, against 3.1 in the rest of Illinois and the FBI’s national estimate of 3.6.

On the roads

No one died in a crash on North Utica’s roads in 2019–2023

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 North Utica’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so North Utica’s own rate (0.0) is context, not a ranking.

0
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
0.0
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

North Utica and its neighbors

LaSalle: Safety Grade ALaSalleNorth Utica
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
North UticaA0.07.0
LaSalleA0.71.7

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

Illinois towns of a similar size

TownGradeViolentProperty
North UticaA0.07.0
GermantownA+0.00.5
DurandA+0.01.5
OkawvilleA0.23.5
BannockburnB+0.011.2
ViennaC+1.517.0

The five graded Illinois towns closest to North Utica’s population (1,334), by grade.

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

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 North Utica. 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 North Utica’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
  • Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,348 in 2025); our figure for North Utica is 1,334 (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 North Utica

Is North Utica, IL safe?

On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, North Utica reports less crime per resident than 85% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade. Its police reported 0.0 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 North Utica?

0.0 violent and 7.0 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 North Utica safer than LaSalle?

LaSalle reports less crime per resident than North Utica: LaSalle grades A for safety and North Utica A. LaSalle’s police reported 0.7 violent and 1.7 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

Who polices North Utica?

North Utica’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “North Utica”. 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.