Bedford Park is a village of 650 in Cook County, about 11 miles southwest of downtown Chicago · Updated November 2026
How common is property crime in Bedford Park?
Property crime is high in Bedford Park: a B, with more property crime than the neighborhoods where 70% of Americans live. Theft makes up 73% of it. Burglary, the crime most likely to reach into a home, grades B+, and vehicle theft grades A.
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Property crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 650 of 1,000More property crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
30% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more property crime than Bedford Park as a whole, and 70% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a property crime safety score of 823, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Bedford Park scores 650.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more property crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its property crime with the homes, parked cars and people there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy shopping center can show red while the homes beside it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a strong connection. Compare high speed internet in Bedford Park, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Bedford Park, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about property crime in Bedford Park
Acts of vandalism run high for a city with a B for property crime. Bedford Park has 99.5 acts of vandalism a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of a US city graded B for property crime, the figure is 6.3.
Thefts and car thefts both run high. In Bedford Park, each runs at more than triple the US rate: 487.0 thefts and 66.1 car thefts a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 and 2.7 nationally.
Property crime rates and types in Bedford Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Bedford Park has about 670 reported property crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than triple the rate for Illinois.
All property crime
Burglary
Vehicle theft
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Property crime here includes vandalism, which the FBI's property crime rate leaves out.
Theft is the most common property crime in Bedford Park, about 73% of the total, followed by vandalism and vehicle theft.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a property crime with what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for vehicle theft, people and parking for theft, homes and businesses for vandalism. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when property crime happens in Bedford Park
Bedford Park has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often at stores and businesses: 61% of them, against 10% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Car theft
Stores and businesses (61%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Parking lots and garages (46%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Parking lots and garages (50%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Property crime in Bedford Park and nearby cities
Of the 10 cities closest to Bedford Park, 8 have less property crime. Forest View and Stickney have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Bedford Park. Beside each property crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, Bedford Park has more property crime than 83% of them.
Property crime costs Bedford Park about $2.8 million a year, or $4,385 per resident and about $6,173 per household: the value of what is stolen or damaged, plus the police, courts and prisons that respond.
Cost of property crime per resident, per year
How the cost breaks down
Pain and suffering add little to the cost of property crime, so this is close to its full cost.
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Burglary
$98,000
$150
Theft
$1.6 million
$2,500
Vehicle theft
$660,000
$1,015
Arson
$10,000
$15
Vandalism
$460,000
$704
Total
$2.8 million
$4,385
How CrimeGrade™ works
The property crime CrimeGrade™ covers burglary, theft, car theft, arson and vandalism, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each property crime against what it affects: homes for burglary and arson, parked cars for car theft, and the people and parking around stores for theft.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
Published research on what crime costs victims and communities
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
