River Forest crime statistics report an overall downward trend in crime based on data from 11 years with violent crime decreasing and property crime decreasing. Based on this trend, the crime rate in River Forest for 2025 is expected to be lower than in 2019.
The city violent crime rate for River Forest in 2019 was lower than the
national violent crime rate average by 70.9% and the city property crime rate in River Forest was higher than the
national property crime rate average but only by 1.16%.
In 2019 the city violent crime rate in River Forest was lower than the
violent crime rate in Illinois by 72.87% and the city property crime rate in River Forest was higher than the
property crime rate in Illinois by 15.6%.