The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Fox Lake, IL
Fox Lake is a village of 11,300 in Lake County, about 45 miles northwest of downtown Chicago · Updated November 2026
Is Fox Lake, IL safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Fox Lake is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Fox Lake sits near the middle: 43% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 57% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A- here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Fox Lake run from A+ to B, so check the map below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 801 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
43% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Fox Lake as a whole, and 57% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Fox Lake scores 801.
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 Fox Lake, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Fox Lake, 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 in Fox Lake
Burglaries run high for an A-graded city. Fox Lake has 2.9 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; for the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 1.2.
The safest and least safe parts of Fox Lake
Every part of Fox Lake where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Fox Lake run from A+ to B; 47% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
100%
A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Fox Lake, the northwest side has the least crime and the center the most.
Is crime going up in Fox Lake?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Fox Lake is up 12% and property crime is down 34%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.2 to 2.5 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 25 to 17 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 10%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Fox LakeUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Fox Lake. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Fox Lake
Violent, US
Property, Fox Lake
Property, US
2016
-26%
+4%
-46%
+15%
2017
+34%
+4%
-2%
+12%
2018
-26%
+0%
-2%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-1%
+4%
+20%
-8%
2021
+66%
+6%
-28%
-10%
2022
+25%
+5%
-35%
-6%
2023
+50%
+2%
-40%
-7%
2024
+12%
-4%
-34%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Fox Lake
CrimeGrade™ estimates Fox Lake has about 46 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 23% more than the US as a whole and close to 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 Fox Lake, about 51% 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.
Where and when crime happens in Fox Lake
Fox Lake has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Fox Lake, 50% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 46% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (50%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Theft from cars
Homes (46%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Vandalism
Homes (44%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (60%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Fox Lake compares with nearby cities
Fox Lake has the most crime of its 9 nearest cities.
Two things set Fox Lake apart: it has 2.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 27 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places with a lot of parking-lot space tend to report more theft; here theft sits near the national middle.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.2.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 84% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.27 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 75% of US city residents
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more theft and assault. 84% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (15 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 59% of US city residents
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Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.5% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 74% of US city residents
Lit at nightSatellite images show which neighborhoods are lit at night, a sign of busy streets and businesses. Brightly lit places tend to report more theft and vandalism.77% where people liveUS: 78%Lower than for 73% of US city residents
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more theft and robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Fox Lake: D- (10 of 100).3 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 61% of US city residents
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What crime costs Fox Lake
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Fox Lake about $835 a year per household, 31% 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 $8.5 million a year, or $754 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$77,000
$7
Rape
$280,000
$25
Robbery
$51,000
$5
Assault
$2.3 million
$201
Burglary
$290,000
$26
Theft
$620,000
$55
Vehicle theft
$210,000
$19
Arson
$13,000
$1
Vandalism
$570,000
$50
Total
$4.4 million
$388
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 Fox Lake 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.
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 Fox Lake, IL average a SchoolGrade of B-: 45% of students test proficient, against 30% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Fox Lake on SchoolGrade
