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Safety in Sangamon Valley Township · Not graded

No grade for Sangamon Valley Township, but its recorded crime is here

Within a 25-mile drive lie 4 towns that have a grade. The FBI holds no crime figures for Sangamon Valley Township alone for 2023–2025, so it can’t be graded. For a graded neighbor, the nearest is Jacksonville (C), 20 miles away.

Nearest with figures

The nearest Illinois towns with a Safety Grade

TownGradeDistanceViolentProperty
JacksonvilleC20 mi2.619.8
RushvilleB20 mi1.59.0
HavanaD21 mi8.712.5
South JacksonvilleA−22 mi0.93.6
AthensB+26 mi2.14.7
ShermanA33 mi0.43.1

Straight-line distance from the center of Sangamon Valley Township. Nearby towns can differ a lot from Sangamon Valley Township.

Each town’s own police figures, per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.

On the roads

Two people died in crashes on Sangamon Valley Township’s roads in 2019–2023

Sangamon Valley Township had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which two people 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 Sangamon Valley Township’s size would see about 0 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sangamon Valley Township’s own rate (80.6) is context, not a ranking.

2
people died in crashes, 2019–2023
0
pedestrians among them
0
cyclists among them
80.6
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

Sangamon Valley Township and its neighbors

Lynchburg Township: not gradedVirginia Township: not gradedPanther Creek Township: not gradedBluff Springs Township: not gradedVirginia: not gradedBath Township: not gradedChandlerville Township: not gradedLynchburg TownshipVirginia TownshipPanther Creek TownshipBluff Springs TownshipVirginiaBath TownshipChandlerville TownshipSangamon Valley Township
A rangeB rangeC rangeD rangeNot graded
TownGradeViolentProperty
Virginia———

Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Virginia has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.

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.
  • A county agency covers a wide area. Its totals mix many communities, so they say little about any one of them.
  • 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 Sangamon Valley Township

Is Sangamon Valley Township, IL safe?

There is no Safety Grade for Sangamon Valley Township. Sangamon Valley Township has no FBI crime figures of its own for 2023–2025, so there is nothing to grade it on. The nearest Illinois towns with a grade are Jacksonville (C, 20 mi), Rushville (B, 20 mi), Havana (D, 21 mi).

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Crime: FBI Uniform Crime Reporting Program, Crime Data Explorer: offenses known to law enforcement by city, 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.