Ridgeland, Oak Park, IL Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Ridgeland is a neighborhood of 11,800 residents in Oak Park, close to downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Ridgeland?
Ridgeland grades B for violent crime, with more of it than the neighborhoods where 79% of Americans live. Assaults make up 87% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Oak Park as a whole grades B+ for violent crime.
B
Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 631 of 1,000More violent crime than most US neighborhoodsi What this means
21% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Ridgeland as a whole, and 79% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Ridgeland scores 631.
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 violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Ridgeland, Oak Park, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Ridgeland in Oak Park, 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 about violent crime in Ridgeland
Aggravated assaults are less common than the crime level suggests. Violent crime in Ridgeland runs 30% above the US rate, but aggravated assaults run 26% below it: 1.9 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
How Ridgeland compares within Oak Park
Most of Ridgeland grades well for violent crime: 75% of residents live in areas graded A or B, and the rest in areas graded C. Violent crime grades across Ridgeland run from A to C-.
75%25%
A or B 75%C 25%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Ridgeland has less violent crime than 0 of the 3 neighborhoods in Oak Park. It covers much of the Ridgeland area.
Is violent crime going up in Oak Park?
Reported violent crime in Oak Park as a whole peaked in 2022 and has fallen 13% since, back near its 2019 level. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 3.0 to 3.1 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). Violent crime changed little from 2023 to 2024.
Violent crime, change since 2019
Oak ParkUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Oak Park. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Oak Park
Violent, US
2016
-30%
+4%
2017
+14%
+4%
2018
-4%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+19%
+4%
2021
+19%
+6%
2022
+21%
+5%
2023
-0%
+2%
2024
+5%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Ridgeland
CrimeGrade™ estimates Ridgeland has about 17 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 30% more than the US as a whole and 50% more than Oak Park as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Ridgeland, about 87% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. 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 violent crime happens in Oak Park
The Oak Park Police Department polices Ridgeland; these figures cover Oak Park as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Oak Park as a whole, 21% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 57% of them.
Crime
Most often at
Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (57%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (42%)
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.
Violent crime in Ridgeland and nearby neighborhoods
Ridgeland has less violent crime than 7 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Ridgeland. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Ridgeland is safer than 55% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Ridgeland apart: it has a Walk Grade of B+ (71 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 23 buses and trains an hour at the evening rush, where most Americans have none nearby. Places like that tend to report more assault, and it runs high here.
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 assault. 59% of residents here live in walkable areas.B+ (71 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 78% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Ridgeland: C+ (40 of 100).23 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 73% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.70% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 60% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.12% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 57% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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 violent crime costs Ridgeland
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Ridgeland about $15 million a year, or $1,309 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $3.8 million, or $323 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
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.
