Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Cosmo1976 assumed (based on copyright claims). · Public domainRecorded crime per resident is lower in Woodstock than in 81% of U.S. towns
It has less violent crime than 79% of U.S. towns, and less property crime than 77%. On the record of crimes Woodstock’s police reported from 2023 to 2025, it takes A− for safety: #81 of 339 graded towns in Illinois. Police counts work out at 0.7 violent crime and 5.5 incidents of property crime per 1,000 residents annually; in the rest of Illinois they 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 Woodstock
1 of the 1 graded towns next door reports less crime
Of the 3 Illinois towns on Woodstock’s borders, 1 have a Safety Grade: Bull Valley (A+). Greenwood Township and Dorr Township 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 Woodstock’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.
Violent crime, by year and by type
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| Year | Woodstock | Rest of Illinois | U.S. (FBI national estimate) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 0.6 | 3.8 | 4.0 |
| 2023 | 0.6 | 3.4 | 3.9 |
| 2024 | 0.9 | 3.2 | 3.6 |
| 2025 | 0.4 | 2.7 | 3.3 |
Violent crimes per 1,000 residents
By type 2023–2025, counts
Woodstock’s police reported 51 violent crimes to the FBI over 2023–2025, about 0.7 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 Woodstock 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 fewer than 1 violent crime, in 2025. Below are 1,000 dots, one per resident; each colored dot is one reported crime.
Reported crime is steady
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| Year | Woodstock property | Rest of Illinois property | Woodstock violent | Rest of Illinois violent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 7.0 | 20.6 | 0.6 | 3.8 |
| 2023 | 5.8 | 19.6 | 0.6 | 3.4 |
| 2024 | 5.4 | 19.9 | 0.9 | 3.2 |
| 2025 | 5.4 | 17.1 | 0.4 | 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.
150 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.
11 violent and 139 property, as reported to the FBI by Woodstock’s police.
Seven people died in crashes on Woodstock’s roads in 2019–2023
Woodstock had 6 fatal crashes in five years, in which seven people died.
That is about what 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 Woodstock’s size would see about 7 in five years. With numbers this small, a death or two either way changes the picture, so Woodstock’s own rate (5.4) 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.
Woodstock and its neighbors
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodstock | A− | 0.7 | 5.5 |
| Bull Valley | A+ | 0.0 | 0.0 |
| Greenwood Township | — | — | — |
| Dorr Township | — | — | — |
Crimes reported to the FBI per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025. Greenwood Township and Dorr Township have no FBI figures of their own for 2023–2025.
Illinois towns of a similar size
| Town | Grade | Violent | Property |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodstock | A− | 0.7 | 5.5 |
| Edwardsville | A− | 0.3 | 6.1 |
| South Elgin | B+ | 1.5 | 6.1 |
| Belvidere | B+ | 1.8 | 4.8 |
| West Chicago | B+ | 1.5 | 6.2 |
| Alton | D | 9.1 | 29.4 |
The five graded Illinois towns closest to Woodstock’s population (25,740), 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 Woodstock. 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 Woodstock’s residents, which raises the per-resident rate.
- Whose population. Rates use the FBI’s population for the department (25,952 in 2025); our figure for Woodstock is 25,740 (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 Woodstock
Is Woodstock, IL safe?
On crimes reported to the FBI in 2023–2025, Woodstock reports less crime per resident than 81% of U.S. towns, an A− Safety Grade and #81 of 339 in Illinois. Its police reported 0.7 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 Woodstock?
0.7 violent and 5.5 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.
How many homicides were there in Woodstock in 2025?
Woodstock’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 Woodstock safer than Bull Valley?
Bull Valley reports less crime per resident than Woodstock: Bull Valley grades A+ for safety and Woodstock A−. Bull Valley’s police reported 0.0 violent and 0.0 property crimes per 1,000 residents a year, 2023–2025.
Who polices Woodstock?
Woodstock’s own police department, which reports to the FBI as “Woodstock”. 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.