Southern View is a village of 1,750 in Sangamon County, about 2 miles south of Springfield · Updated November 2026
Is Southern View, IL safe?
Southern View has more crime than most of the country: an overall CrimeGrade™ of C+, with more crime than the neighborhoods where 81% of Americans live. Violent crime grades B and property crime D+.
C+
Overall CrimeGrade™
Safety score 519 of 1,000Less safe than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
19% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more crime than Southern View as a whole, and 81% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a safety score of 838, a CrimeGrade™ of A-. Southern View scores 519.
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 Southern View, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Southern View, 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 Southern View
Burglary stands out among C-graded cities. For the typical resident of a C-graded US city, the figure is 2.5 burglaries a year per 1,000 residents; Southern View has 10.9.
Thefts run high. Southern View has thefts at about triple the US rate: 37.5 a year per 1,000 residents, against 13.1 nationally.
Crime rates and types in Southern View
CrimeGrade™ estimates Southern View has about 107 reported crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, about triple the rate for the US as a whole and more than double the rate for 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 Southern View, about 35% 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 Southern View
Southern View has its own police department, and these figures come from its reports, 2022 to 2024.
In Southern View, 33% of burglaries hit homes, against 57% nationally.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Burglary
Stores and businesses (67%)
Morning (6 am to noon)
Vandalism
Stores and businesses (61%)
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; they are over one in five for burglary.
How Southern View compares with nearby cities
Of the 6 cities closest to Southern View, 5 have less crime. Rochester and Chatham have the least.
Crime costs Southern View about $2,054 a year per household, counting police, courts and prisons as well as victims' losses, 70% more 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 $3.1 million a year, or $1,768 per resident.
How the cost breaks down
Crime
Cost a year
Per resident
Murder
$87,000
$50
Rape
$53,000
$30
Robbery
$17,000
$10
Assault
$460,000
$263
Burglary
$170,000
$98
Theft
$340,000
$192
Vehicle theft
$150,000
$88
Arson
$4,000
$2
Vandalism
$310,000
$175
Total
$1.6 million
$908
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 Southern View 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 Southern View, IL average a SchoolGrade of F: 17% of students test proficient, against 10% projected for schools like them. Overall, they underperform expectations. See schools in Southern View on SchoolGrade
