Violent crime per resident is lower in Vernon Hills than in 75% of U.S. towns
The rate the grade counts dropped 26% from 2023 to 2025. Across all the graded crimes, Vernon Hills lands on B (#192 of 339 graded towns in Illinois): close to the middle of U.S. towns, on crimes its police reported from 2023 to 2025. Add to that, the local count comes to 0.8 violent crime and 13.1 incidents of property crime per 1,000 people each year, with 3.1 and 18.8 in the rest of Illinois. Each of the 4 towns on its borders with figures records less crime per resident.
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 Vernon Hills
4 of the 4 graded towns next door report less crime
Of the 5 Illinois towns on Vernon Hills’ borders, 4 have a Safety Grade: Buffalo Grove (A−), Libertyville (A−), Mundelein (A−), Lincolnshire (B+). Long Grove has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025. Neighbors ↓
Among Illinois towns, closer to the middle
Illinois’ cities and towns report less crime than most states’, so Vernon Hills’ place among its own towns differs from its national one: it reports less crime than 43% of the 339 Illinois towns we grade, against 56% nationally. Safety Grade ↓
A job center
Vernon Hills has 19,500 jobs based in town for 26,825 residents (Census LEHD), so some reports involve people who work or shop there rather than residents. How to read it ↓
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 Vernon Hills’ grade
Property crimes plus four times violent crimes reported to the FBI per resident, 2023–2025, on a national curve. Violent crime holds Vernon Hills’ grade up; property crime pulls it down. Its property rate (13.1) 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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Vernon Hills | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 1.0 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 1.0 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.6 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.7 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Vernon Hills’ police reported 61 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.8 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 per resident, 2023 to 2025
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| Year | Vernon Hills property | Rest of Illinois property | Vernon Hills violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 12.7 | 20.5 | 1.0 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 14.2 | 19.6 | 1.0 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 14.6 | 19.9 | 0.6 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 10.5 | 17.1 | 0.7 | 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.
Crime in Vernon Hills 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.
303 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.
19 violent and 284 property, as reported to the FBI by Vernon Hills’ police.
One person died in crashes on Vernon Hills’s roads in 2019–2023
Vernon Hills had 1 fatal crash in five years, in which one person died.
That is fewer than is typical for Illinois towns of 25,000–100,000 people: at their median rate (5.1 deaths per 100,000 residents a year), a town of Vernon Hills’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Vernon Hills’s own rate (0.7) 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.
Vernon Hills and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Hills | B | 0.8 | 13.1 |
| Mundelein | A− | 0.6 | 6.4 |
| Buffalo Grove | A− | 0.3 | 6.1 |
| Lincolnshire | B+ | 0.5 | 8.3 |
| Libertyville | A− | 0.6 | 4.7 |
| Long Grove | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Long Grove has no FBI figures of its own for 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vernon Hills | B | 0.8 | 13.1 |
| Oak Forest | A− | 0.6 | 4.6 |
| Yorkville | A− | 0.8 | 4.7 |
| Batavia | B+ | 0.7 | 8.4 |
| Round Lake Beach | B+ | 0.7 | 8.6 |
| Granite City | D | 6.5 | 24.3 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Vernon Hills’ population (26,825), 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 Vernon Hills. 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 Vernon Hills’ residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (27,046 in 2025); our figure for Vernon Hills is 26,825 (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 Vernon Hills
Is Vernon Hills, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Vernon Hills reports less crime per resident than 56% of U.S. towns, a B Safety Grade and #192 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 0.8 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 Vernon Hills?
0.8 violent and 13.1 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.
How many homicides were there in Vernon Hills in 2025?
Vernon Hills’s police reported 0 homicides to the FBI for 2025, 0.0 per 100,000 residents. Across U.S. cities and towns in the FBI’s tables the 2025 figure was 4.6.
Is Vernon Hills safer than Mundelein?
Mundelein reports less crime per resident than Vernon Hills: Mundelein grades A− for safety and Vernon Hills B. Mundelein’s police reported 0.6 violent and 6.4 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Vernon Hills?
Vernon Hills’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Vernon Hills”. 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.