Photo: User:Visviva · CC BY-SA 4.0Recorded crime per resident is higher in Southern View than in 95% of U.S. towns
Violent crime here is higher than in 75% of U.S. towns; property crime, higher than in 98%. The local count comes to 3.2 violent crimes and 51.6 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 3.1 and 18.8 in the rest of Illinois. Its Safety Grade is D, on crimes Southern View’s 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’s behind Southern View’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; violent crime is the closer of the two to typical. Its violent rate (3.2) is below the FBI’s national estimate (3.6) but higher than in most individual towns: the national figure is weighted by people, and the grade counts towns.
Crime in Southern View 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 3 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 | Southern View | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 3.9 | 3.7 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 3.2 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 3.9 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 2.6 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Southern View’s police reported 15 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 3.2 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 | Southern View property | Rest of Illinois property | Southern View violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 34.1 | 20.5 | 3.9 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 51.6 | 19.5 | 3.2 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 55.2 | 19.8 | 3.9 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 48.0 | 17.1 | 2.6 | 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, 2022–2025, against the rest of Illinois.
78 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.
4 violent and 74 property, as reported to the FBI by Southern View’s police.
No one died in a crash on Southern View’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 Southern View’s size would see about 1 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Southern View’s own rate (0.0) 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.
Southern View and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern View | D | 3.2 | 51.6 |
| Woodside Township | — | — | — |
| Capital Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Woodside Township and Capital Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southern View | D | 3.2 | 51.6 |
| Maple Park | A+ | 0.0 | 2.0 |
| Mount Pulaski | A+ | 0.2 | 0.9 |
| Manito | A | 0.2 | 4.3 |
| Carrier Mills | B | 0.8 | 10.9 |
| Hodgkins | D− | 1.6 | 122.4 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Southern View’s population (1,540), 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 Southern View. 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 Southern View’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (1,542 in 2025); our figure for Southern View is 1,540 (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 Southern View
Is Southern View, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Southern View reports more crime per resident than 95% of U.S. towns, a D Safety Grade. Its police reported 3.2 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 Southern View?
3.2 violent and 51.6 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.
Who polices Southern View?
Southern View’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Southern View”. 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.