The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Montgomery, IL
Montgomery is a village of 21,300 in Kendall County, about 40 miles west of downtown Chicago · Updated November 2026
Is Montgomery, IL safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A means crime in Montgomery is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Montgomery sits near the middle: 56% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 44% in neighborhoods with less. Violent and property crime both grade A here. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Montgomery run from A+ to B, so check the map below.
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Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 864 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
56% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Montgomery as a whole, and 44% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Montgomery scores 864.
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 Montgomery, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Montgomery, 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 Montgomery
Reported rapes run high, though crime overall runs low. Crime overall in Montgomery runs 28% below the US rate, but reported rapes run 60% above it: 0.61 a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.38 nationally.
Car thefts are uncommon. Montgomery has car thefts at less than half the US rate: 1.0 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.7 nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Montgomery
Every part of Montgomery where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Montgomery run from A+ to B; 72% of residents live in areas with less crime than the typical US neighborhood.
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A or B 100%
Share of residents, by the overall CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Within Montgomery, the southwest side has the least crime and the northeast side the most.
Is crime going up in Montgomery?
Reported crime in Montgomery has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 31% and property crime down 33%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 1.7 to 1.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 14 to 9.1 (US: 18). In 2024 alone, property crime rose 19%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
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Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police agencies that serve Montgomery. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Montgomery
Violent, US
Property, Montgomery
Property, US
2016
-46%
+4%
+20%
+15%
2017
-9%
+4%
+31%
+12%
2018
-49%
+0%
+4%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-21%
+4%
-13%
-8%
2021
+3%
+6%
-32%
-10%
2022
+13%
+5%
-28%
-6%
2023
-44%
+2%
-44%
-7%
2024
-31%
-4%
-33%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Montgomery
CrimeGrade™ estimates Montgomery has about 27 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 28% less than the US as a whole and 37% 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 Montgomery, about 43% 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 Montgomery
Montgomery has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
Car thefts happen most often at homes: 43% of them, against 33% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Car theft
Homes (43%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Homes (43%)
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 Montgomery compares with nearby cities
Montgomery has more crime than 8 of its 9 nearest cities. Sugar Grove and Bristol have the least crime nearby.
One thing sets Montgomery apart: it has 3.9 parking-lot spaces per resident, against 2.0 nationally. Places like that tend to report more theft, yet theft runs lower here than that would suggest.
Parking lotsBig lots at stores, offices and apartment complexes. Places with more lot space tend to report more theft.3.9 spaces per residentUS: 2.0Higher than for 93% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.31 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 70% 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. 90% of residents here live in car-dependent areas.D (13 of 100)US: 21Lower than for 66% of US city residents
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Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.8.8 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Lower than for 65% 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.99% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 65% 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 Montgomery: F (0 of 100).under 1 trip an hourUS: noneLower than for 64% 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 Montgomery
Counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, crime costs Montgomery about $755 a year per household, 37% 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 $12 million a year, or $574 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$220,000
$11
Rape
$790,000
$37
Robbery
$81,000
$4
Assault
$2.1 million
$98
Burglary
$260,000
$12
Theft
$880,000
$41
Vehicle theft
$330,000
$15
Arson
$33,000
$2
Vandalism
$600,000
$28
Total
$5.3 million
$247
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 Montgomery 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 Montgomery, IL average a SchoolGrade of C-: 38% of students test proficient, against 23% projected for schools like them. Overall, they meet expectations. See schools in Montgomery on SchoolGrade
