Photo: Wiszo8 · CC BY-SA 4.0More violent crime is recorded per resident in Sauk Village than in 81% of U.S. towns
Overall, Sauk Village grades C for safety (#265 of 339 graded towns in Illinois): more crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported in 2023–2025. Add to that, its police logs show 3.8 violent crimes and 13.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, while in the rest of Illinois the numbers are 3.1 and 18.8.
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 Sauk Village
Sauk Village reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 Illinois towns on Sauk Village’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Steger (C). Ford Heights and Lynwood have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Written from the FBI data on this page. Figures are crimes reported to police, not convictions.
What’s behind Sauk Village’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 higher than in most U.S. towns; property crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its property rate (13.5) is below the FBI’s national estimate (17.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in Sauk Village 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 4 violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Sauk Village | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 3.8 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 3.7 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Sauk Village’s police reported 109 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.8 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 is steady
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| Year | Sauk Village property | Rest of Illinois property | Sauk Village violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 10.0 | 19.5 | 3.8 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 13.4 | 19.8 | 4.1 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 17.1 | 17.1 | 3.7 | 2.7 |
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.
199 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.
35 violent and 164 property, as reported to the FBI by Sauk Village’s police.
Nine people died in crashes on Sauk Village’s roads in 2019–2023
Sauk Village had 9 fatal crashes in five years, in which nine people died; 4 were pedestrians.
That is more than 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 Sauk Village’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sauk Village’s own rate (18.6) 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.
Sauk Village and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sauk Village | C | 3.8 | 13.5 |
| Ford Heights | — | — | — |
| Steger | C | 3.0 | 18.2 |
| Lynwood | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Ford Heights and Lynwood have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sauk Village | C | 3.8 | 13.5 |
| Hawthorn Woods | A+ | 0.1 | 1.0 |
| LaSalle | A | 0.7 | 1.7 |
| Itasca | A− | 0.5 | 6.1 |
| Harvard | B+ | 1.2 | 6.9 |
| Peru | C+ | 1.6 | 17.4 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Sauk Village’s population (9,624), 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 Sauk Village. 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 Sauk Village’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,563 in 2025); our figure for Sauk Village is 9,624 (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 Sauk Village
Is Sauk Village, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Sauk Village reports more crime per resident than 70% of U.S. towns, a C Safety Grade and #265 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 3.8 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 Sauk Village?
3.8 violent and 13.5 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 Sauk Village safer than Steger?
Steger reports more crime per resident than Sauk Village: Steger grades C for safety and Sauk Village C. Steger’s police reported 3.0 violent and 18.2 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Sauk Village?
Sauk Village’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Sauk Village”. 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.