Recorded crime per resident in Prospect Heights fell 43% from 2023 to 2025
Among its 4 neighbors with figures, only one records less crime per resident. Year on year, 1.2 violent crimes and 6.5 incidents of property crime occur per 1,000 residents, compared with 3.1 and 18.8 in the rest of Illinois. All told, Prospect Heights grades B+ for safety (#133 of 339 graded towns in Illinois): less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported 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 Prospect Heights
1 of the 4 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 4 Illinois towns on Prospect Heights’ borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Arlington Heights (B+), Wheeling (B+), Mount Prospect (B+), Glenview (B−). Neighbors ↓
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 Prospect Heights’ 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.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Prospect Heights property | Rest of Illinois property | Prospect Heights violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 10.2 | 20.5 | 1.4 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8.5 | 19.6 | 1.4 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 5.9 | 19.9 | 1.6 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 5.2 | 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Prospect Heights | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.4 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.4 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 1.6 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.5 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Prospect Heights’ police reported 53 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 1.2 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 Prospect Heights 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.
88 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.
7 violent and 81 property, as reported to the FBI by Prospect Heights’ police.
Five people died in crashes on Prospect Heights’s roads in 2019–2023
Prospect Heights had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which five people died; 1 was a pedestrian.
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 Prospect Heights’s size would see about 5 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Prospect Heights’s own rate (6.4) 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.
Prospect Heights and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Heights | B+ | 1.2 | 6.5 |
| Arlington Heights | B+ | 0.6 | 8.5 |
| Wheeling | B+ | 0.9 | 8.9 |
| Mount Prospect | B+ | 0.8 | 8.9 |
| Glenview | B− | 1.3 | 12.5 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prospect Heights | B+ | 1.2 | 6.5 |
| Warrenville | A− | 0.5 | 6.7 |
| Antioch | A− | 0.7 | 6.7 |
| La Grange | B | 1.4 | 7.9 |
| Washington | B− | 1.1 | 14.7 |
| Bradley | C− | 2.7 | 22.0 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Prospect Heights’ population (15,552), 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 Prospect Heights. 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 Prospect Heights’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (15,462 in 2025); our figure for Prospect Heights is 15,552 (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 Prospect Heights
Is Prospect Heights, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Prospect Heights reports less crime per resident than 71% of U.S. towns, a B+ Safety Grade and #133 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 1.2 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 Prospect Heights?
1.2 violent and 6.5 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 Prospect Heights safer than Arlington Heights?
Arlington Heights reports less crime per resident than Prospect Heights: Arlington Heights grades B+ for safety and Prospect Heights B+. Arlington Heights’s police reported 0.6 violent and 8.5 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Prospect Heights?
Prospect Heights’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Prospect Heights”. 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.