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New Lenox Named Among 10 Safest Places in Illinois
Find out who else made the list, and how real estate blog Movoto measured the contenders.
Residents of New Lenox live in a village boasting a crime rate so low that it lands them among the safest hometowns in the state.
Real estate blog Movoto ranks New Lenox as the ninth-safest place in Illinois. Homer Glen leads the list, with other finalists including Libertville, Geneva, Bartlett and others.
Movoto researchers made a list of the most populated places in the state, then, delved into Uniform Crime Report from the FBI (2012), looking at criteria such as:
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- Murder
- Rape
- Robbery
- Assault
- Burglary
- Theft
- Vehicle theft
Those were then further divided into:
- Murders
- Violent crimes
- Property crimes
- Total crimes
Those stats rounded up 115 locations, which they then compared by crime rates based on crimes per 100,000 residents.
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Each place was then ranked with a score from one to 115 for murders, violent crimes, property crimes, and total crimes, all per 100,000, with one being the safest possible score.
See the full list and find out more about their methodology.
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