The Safest and Most Dangerous Places in Skokie, IL
Skokie is a village of 61,700 in Cook County, about 12 miles northwest of downtown Chicago · Updated November 2026
Is Skokie, IL safe?
Yes. An overall CrimeGrade™ of A- means crime in Skokie is low. Most US neighborhoods have little crime too, so Skokie sits near the middle: 42% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime, and 58% in neighborhoods with less. Violent crime grades better than property crime here, A against B. What matters most is the neighborhood: grades within Skokie run from A to B, so check the map below.
A-
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 791 of 1,000About as safe as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
42% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Skokie as a whole, and 58% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Skokie scores 791.
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 Skokie, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Skokie, 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 Skokie
Burglary stands out among A-graded cities. For the typical resident of an A-graded US city, the figure is 1.2 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; Skokie has 7.0.
Thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks far more often than nationally. In Skokie, 48% of reported thefts from cars happen on streets and sidewalks, against 18% nationally.
The safest and least safe parts of Skokie
Every part of Skokie where people live grades A or B on the national scale. Grades across Skokie run from A to B; 9% 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 Skokie, the northwest side has the least crime and the southeast side the most.
Is crime going up in Skokie?
Reported crime in Skokie has fallen since 2019: violent crime is down 17% and property crime down 13%. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 2.4 to 2.0 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7); burglaries, thefts and vehicle thefts from about 30 to 26 (US: 18). Neither changed much from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Property crime, change since 2019
SkokieUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police department that serves Skokie. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Skokie
Violent, US
Property, Skokie
Property, US
2016
+2%
+4%
-19%
+15%
2017
+21%
+4%
-19%
+12%
2018
-1%
+0%
-12%
+4%
2019
+0%
+0%
+0%
+0%
2020
-23%
+4%
-17%
-8%
2021
-22%
+6%
-35%
-10%
2022
-13%
+5%
-21%
-6%
2023
-16%
+2%
-14%
-7%
2024
-17%
-4%
-12%
-15%
Crime rates and types in Skokie
CrimeGrade™ estimates Skokie has about 46 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 25% 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.
Theft is the most common crime in Skokie, about 36% of everything reported, but assault costs more, because each one does more harm.
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 Skokie
Skokie has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Skokie, 28% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Streets and sidewalks (29%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Car theft
Streets and sidewalks (55%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Theft from cars
Streets and sidewalks (48%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Vandalism
Streets and sidewalks (27%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (40%)
Afternoon (noon to 6 pm)
Aggravated assault
Homes (41%)
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 Skokie compares with nearby cities
Of the 9 cities closest to Skokie, 7 have less crime. Kenilworth and Northfield have the least.
Two things set Skokie apart: it has a Walk Grade of B- (49 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 15.4 stores and restaurants for every 1,000 residents, against 10.5 nationally. It also combines many jobs with busy transit: places with both tend to report more theft and robbery than places with only one of them, and they run high here.
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.100% where people liveUS: 78%Higher than for 92% 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.B- (49 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 91% of US city residents
Stores and restaurantsShops and restaurants draw crowds and parked cars. Places with many stores tend to report more theft.15.4 per 1,000 residentsUS: 10.5Higher than for 89% of US city residents
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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 Skokie: C (33 of 100).13 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 88% 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.59% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 87% of US city residents
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more theft and robbery.70 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Higher than for 87% of US city residents
BestNeighborhood, a sister site of CrimeGrade™, ranks the neighborhoods of Skokie on shops, parks, home prices, getting around and more.
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 Skokie
Crime costs Skokie about $1,096 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 9% 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 $42 million a year, or $688 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$430,000
$7
Rape
$1.1 million
$18
Robbery
$1.2 million
$20
Assault
$7.6 million
$123
Burglary
$3.9 million
$63
Theft
$5.3 million
$86
Vehicle theft
$2.8 million
$45
Arson
$70,000
$1
Vandalism
$2.1 million
$35
Total
$25 million
$397
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 Skokie 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 Skokie, IL average a SchoolGrade of A: 54% of students test proficient, against 39% projected for schools like them. Overall, they exceed expectations. See schools in Skokie on SchoolGrade
