The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Granite City, IL
Granite City is a city of 33,700 in Madison County, about 8 miles northeast of downtown St. Louis · Updated November 2026
Is Granite City, IL safe?
Crime in Granite City is moderate, with an overall CrimeGrade™ of B+. Most US neighborhoods have little crime: 68% of Americans live in neighborhoods with less crime than Granite City. Violent and property crime both grade B+ here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Granite City run from A to D+, so check the map below.
B+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 714 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
32% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Granite City as a whole, and 68% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Granite City scores 714.
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 Granite City, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Granite City, 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 Granite City
Burglary stands out among B-graded cities. For the typical resident of a B-graded US city, the figure is 2.7 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; Granite City has 8.2.
Reported rape is the exception. Granite City grades B+ for violent crime, but reported rape grades F, worse than in the neighborhoods where 98% of Americans live.
The safest and least safe parts of Granite City
Low crime is the norm across Granite City: 78% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and 2% in areas graded D or F. Grades across Granite City run from A to D+; 16% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
78%20%
A or B 78%C 20%D or F 2%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Granite City, the north side has the least crime and the southwest side the most.
Is crime going up in Granite City?
Since 2019, reported violent crime in Granite City is down 26%, while property crime has held about steady. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 8.3 to 6.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 23 to 25 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 15%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
Granite CityUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Granite City. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Granite City
Violent, US
Property, Granite City
Property, US
2016
-20%
+4%
-10%
+15%
2017
-8%
+4%
+36%
+12%
2018
-7%
+0%
+10%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-4%
+4%
+5%
-8%
2021
-29%
+6%
+6%
-10%
2022
-21%
+5%
+10%
-6%
2023
-30%
+2%
-7%
-7%
2024
-26%
-4%
+6%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Granite City
CrimeGrade™ estimates Granite City has about 45 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 21% 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 Granite City, about 28% 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 Granite City
Granite City has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Granite City, 53% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally. Thefts from cars happen most often at homes: 47% of them, against 34% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Homes (53%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (38%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Theft from cars
Homes (47%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (47%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (35%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Homes (62%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
How Granite City compares with nearby cities
Granite City has less crime than 5 of its 7 nearest cities; only Pontoon Beach and Fairmont City have less.
Parking lots, transit and walkability in Granite City
Two things set Granite City apart: it has 3.4 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally, and 6% of its residents in dense blocks, against 24% nationally. 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.3.4 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 90% 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 Granite City: D+ (24 of 100).NoneUS: noneLower than for 84% 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. 86% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (17 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 53% of US city residents
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Empty homesSeasonal and vacation homes are left out. Places with many empty homes tend to report more burglary, vandalism and arson.8.7% of homesUS: 7.1%Higher than for 77% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.7.9 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 73% of US city residents
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery and car theft.6% of residentsUS: 24%Lower than for 70% 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 Granite City
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Granite City about $1,261 a year per household, about the same as 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 $55 million a year, or $1,620 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$1.4 million
$40
Rape
$2.7 million
$80
Robbery
$590,000
$17
Assault
$5.5 million
$163
Burglary
$2.5 million
$74
Theft
$2.0 million
$58
Vehicle theft
$1.4 million
$41
Arson
$310,000
$9
Vandalism
$1.9 million
$56
Total
$18 million
$539
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 Granite City 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 Granite City, IL average a SchoolGrade of D: 32% of students test proficient, against 21% projected for schools like them. Overall, they don't meet expectations. See schools in Granite City on SchoolGrade
