Crime rates
According to analysis of FBI crime statistics, Hoffman Estates is safer than 65% of the cities and towns in the US of all population sizes. In Illinois, only on the order of 45% of the communities have a lower crime rate than Hoffman Estates. If you live in Hoffman Estates, your chance of becoming a victim of crime in the community is 1 in 69. It is for these reasons that Hoffman Estates is ranked as one of the top 100 safest cities in the U.S.A.

The crime data was collected by the FBI from 17,000 local law enforcement agencies, and include both violent and property crimes, combined.

Hoffman Estates's violent crime rate is 1 per one thousand inhabitants, which is about average for all communities in America, across all population sizes. Violent crimes that are tracked and included in this rate are armed robbery, aggravated assault, forcible (not statutory) rape, and murder and non-negligent manslaughter.
Roughly similar to the national average, our analysis shows that your chance of becoming a victim of violent crime in Hoffman Estates is one in 767.
The property crime rate in Hoffman Estates is below average to all cities and towns in the nation. This means that you are less likely to become a victim of arson, motor vehicle theft, larceny, or burglary in Hoffman Estates than in most communities in America. Your chance of becoming a victim of property crime if you live here Just one in 76.

Description of Hoffman Estates
Hoffman Estates is a northwestern suburb of Chicago in Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 51,895.

According to the 2010 census, the village has a total area of 20.98 square miles (54.3 km2), of which 20.80 square miles (53.9 km2) (or 99.14%) is land and 0.18 square miles (0.47 km2) (or 0.86%) is water.
As of the census of 2000, There were 49,495 people. The population density was 2,511.2 people per square mile (969.6/km²).

The racial makeup of the village was:
• 74.43% White
• 15.07% Asian (In 2011, 22.7% of Hoffman Estates's residents were Asian, making it the Chicago suburb with the third highest percentage of Asians. )
• 4.38% African American
• 3.75% from other races
• 0.17% Native American

The median income for a household in the village was $74,425. The per capita income for the village was $26,669.About 3.4% of families and 4.4% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 2.8% of those age 65 or over.