East Cape Girardeau is a village of 252 in Alexander County, next to Cape Girardeau · Updated November 2026
Is East Cape Girardeau, IL safe?
Yes. Crime is low across most of the US, and lower still in East Cape Girardeau: an overall CrimeGrade™ of A+, safer than the neighborhoods where 76% of Americans live. Violent crime grades A+ and property crime A.
A+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 925 of 1,000Safer than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
76% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than East Cape Girardeau as a whole, and 24% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. East Cape Girardeau scores 925.
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 crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its crime with the people, homes and cars there, on one national scale, from green for the least crime 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 East Cape Girardeau, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in East Cape Girardeau, 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
Crime rates and types in East Cape Girardeau
CrimeGrade™ estimates East Cape Girardeau has about 30 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 18% less than the US as a whole and 28% less than Illinois.
Overall crime
Violent crime
Property crime
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. These figures include simple assaults and vandalism, which the FBI's violent and property crime rates leave out.
Assault is the most common crime in East Cape Girardeau, about 39% of everything reported, and it also accounts for the largest share of what crime costs here.
Each CrimeGrade™ compares a crime with what it affects: people for assaults and robbery, homes for burglary, parked cars for vehicle theft. 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.
How East Cape Girardeau compares with nearby cities
Of the 10 cities closest to East Cape Girardeau, 8 have less crime. Gale and Reynoldsville have the least.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from East Cape Girardeau. Beside each overall CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with cities of similar size and density, East Cape Girardeau has more crime than 94% of them.
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs East Cape Girardeau about $578 a year per household, 52% less than the US figure of $1,205.
Cost of crime per resident, per year
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, which comes almost entirely from violent crime, the full cost comes to about $180,000 a year, or $718 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$9,700
$39
Rape
$5,900
$24
Robbery
$510
$2
Assault
$25,000
$99
Burglary
$9,200
$37
Theft
$9,100
$36
Vehicle theft
$1,700
$7
Arson
$1,100
$4
Vandalism
$11,000
$45
Total
$73,000
$292
How CrimeGrade™ works
A CrimeGrade™ shows how much crime an area has compared with the rest of the country, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most. Every neighborhood in the US is graded on the same scale, so a B in East Cape Girardeau means the same as a B anywhere else.
CrimeGrade™ starts from the crimes people report to police and measures each kind of crime against what it affects: people for assaults, homes for burglaries, parked cars for car thefts.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. East Cape Girardeau is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
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.
Schools in East Cape Girardeau, IL average a SchoolGrade of F: 20% of students test proficient, against 16% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in East Cape Girardeau on SchoolGrade
