Ephraim Smith House · Photo: IvoShandor · CC BY-SA 3.0Sugar Grove records less crime per resident than 93% of U.S. towns
Per resident, the graded crimes were down 58% from 2023 to 2025. Violence and property crime split as 0.2 violent crime and 3.8 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents a year, beside 3.1 and 18.8 in the rest of Illinois. On top of that, on crimes Sugar Grove’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it grades A for safety: #20 of 339 graded towns in Illinois. It has less violent crime than 95% of U.S. towns, and less property crime than 86%.
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 Sugar Grove
Sugar Grove reports less crime than every graded town next door
Of the 3 Illinois towns on Sugar Grove’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Aurora (C+). Prestbury is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Big Rock has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. 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 Sugar Grove’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 lower than in most U.S. towns; violent crime is the stronger of the two.
Reported crime per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Sugar Grove property | Rest of Illinois property | Sugar Grove violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5.7 | 19.5 | 0.2 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 3.3 | 19.9 | 0.3 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 2.5 | 17.1 | 0.0 | 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, 2023–2025, against the rest of Illinois.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Sugar Grove | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 0.2 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.3 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.0 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Sugar Grove’s police reported 5 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.2 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 Sugar Grove 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 no violent crimes, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
23 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.
0 violent and 23 property, as reported to the FBI by Sugar Grove’s police.
Six people died in crashes on Sugar Grove’s roads in 2019–2023
Sugar Grove had 4 fatal crashes in five years, in which six people died.
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 Sugar Grove’s size would see about 3 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Sugar Grove’s own rate (13.0) 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.
Sugar Grove and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Grove | A | 0.2 | 3.8 |
| Prestbury | — | — | — |
| Big Rock | — | — | — |
| Aurora | C+ | 2.7 | 11.4 |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Prestbury is an unincorporated community (a census-designated place) with no police department of its own. Big Rock has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Grove | A | 0.2 | 3.8 |
| LaSalle | A | 0.7 | 1.7 |
| Hampshire | A | 0.5 | 3.5 |
| Itasca | A− | 0.5 | 6.1 |
| Flossmoor | C | 0.8 | 25.1 |
| Steger | C | 3.0 | 18.2 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Sugar Grove’s population (9,381), 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 Sugar Grove. 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 Sugar Grove’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (9,359 in 2025); our figure for Sugar Grove is 9,381 (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 Sugar Grove
Is Sugar Grove, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Sugar Grove reports less crime per resident than 93% of U.S. towns, an A Safety Grade and #20 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 0.2 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 Sugar Grove?
0.2 violent and 3.8 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 Sugar Grove safer than Aurora?
Aurora reports more crime per resident than Sugar Grove: Aurora grades C+ for safety and Sugar Grove A. Aurora’s police reported 2.7 violent and 11.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Sugar Grove?
Sugar Grove’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Sugar Grove”. 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.