No grade for Oakwood Hills, but its recorded crime is here
Nearby, 19 communities within 10 miles carry a Safety Grade. Oakwood Hills’ police reported to the FBI for 2023 and 2025 but not 2024, so there is no Safety Grade: the grade needs all three years, 2023–2025. The closest graded town is Prairie Grove, 2 miles away, at B+.
For every 1,000 residents, about 1 property crime 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 Oakwood Hills’ police reported
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| Year | Oakwood Hills | Rest of Illinois | Oakwood Hills | Rest of Illinois |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | not reported | 20.5 | not reported | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 0.5 | 19.5 | 0.0 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | not reported | 19.8 | not reported | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 17.1 | 0.5 | 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.
2 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.
1 violent and 1 property, as reported to the FBI by Oakwood Hills’ police.
The nearest Illinois towns with a Safety Grade
| Town | Grade | Distance | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Grove | B+ | 2 mi | 1.2 | 6.7 |
| Cary | A | 2 mi | 0.5 | 4.1 |
| Island Lake | A | 3 mi | 0.4 | 4.5 |
| Fox River Grove | A | 4 mi | 0.4 | 3.8 |
| Tower Lakes | A+ | 5 mi | 0.0 | 0.3 |
| Crystal Lake | B | 5 mi | 1.0 | 10.8 |
Straight-line distance from the center of Oakwood Hills. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Oakwood Hills.
Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
One person died in crashes on Oakwood Hills’s roads in 2019–2023
Oakwood Hills had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
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 Oakwood Hills’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Oakwood Hills’s own rate (8.3) 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.
Oakwood Hills and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Algonquin Township | — | — | — |
| Nunda Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Algonquin Township and Nunda Township have no FBI figures of their 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 Oakwood Hills. 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 Oakwood Hills’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (2,057 in 2025); our figure for Oakwood Hills is 2,046 (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 Oakwood Hills
Is Oakwood Hills, IL safe?
There is no Safety Grade for Oakwood Hills. The nearest Illinois towns with a grade are Prairie Grove (B+, 2 mi), Cary (A, 2 mi), Island Lake (A, 3 mi).
Who polices Oakwood Hills?
Oakwood Hills’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Oakwood Hills”. 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.