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Harvey, IL crime: up or down?

Newest FBI monthly report: Oct 2026

About normal for Harvey
175 violent and property crimes reported, Jul–Sep 2026
Usual for these months
210
Per 1,000 residents, past year
25.3
Illinois overall: 14.9
Residents served
19,668
FBI estimate

Missing or partial reports to the FBI: Feb 2024, Sep 2024 – Oct 2024, Oct 2026. Those months are left out of every comparison.

Open Harvey on the map

The map adds deadly crashes, plus plate-reader cameras and police surveillance technology where they are known, and lets you save the place to see what changes.

The same months in past years

Next to similar-size cities

Among the 288 city police departments serving 10,000–25,000 residents in the 4 states loaded so far: violent crime 6.1 per 1,000 residents a year (96% of them report less), property crime 19.2 per 1,000 (84% report less).

The FBI warns against ranking places with these numbers: visitors, commuters, and how each department records and reports crime all differ. Treat this as context, not a grade.

Is Harvey safe?

Crime Radar doesn't grade towns as safe or unsafe: one number can't say what a street is like, and the FBI warns against ranking places. What these reports can say is whether Harvey has more or fewer reported crimes than it usually does, and that its yearly rate is 25.3 per 1,000 residents against 14.9 across Illinois. For one block, open it on the map.

How this works

Harvey Police Department sends monthly counts of violent and property crime to the FBI. Crime Radar compares the newest complete three months with the same months in past years, and only calls a change when it's bigger than this department's usual ups and downs. Months with missing reports are left out, so a reporting gap never looks like a safe stretch. These are totals for everywhere the department patrols, not one street.

Not every crime reaches these numbers: in the national victim survey, about 6 in 10 serious violent crimes and 3 in 10 property crimes were reported to police in 2024 (BJS).

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