IL
Oakton College
0.12 incidents / 1,000 students
Des Plaines, IL · Clery Act 2024 · Public
Oakton College
Across 2022–2024, Oakton College reported 1 incidents in the Clery Criminal Offenses section, and the yearly count fell over that span (largest filed category: Burglary). Nearby same-state same-level comparison: Waubonsee Community College.
- 0.12
- Incidents / 1k students
- #47
- Rank of 2,072
- #41
- IL rank
- 8,329
- Enrolled students
0.12 reported score-category incidents per 1,000 students
Oakton College reports 0.12 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 82% below UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey. Similar-enrollment scored peers: UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey (0.12/1k); Chippewa Valley Technical College (0.12/1k); Lee College (0.00/1k); Waubonsee Community College (0.12/1k); Middle Georgia State University (2.99/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Waubonsee Community College (0.12/1k); Southwestern Illinois College (1.53/1k); Illinois Central College (1.52/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College (0.64/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College (0.43/1k); McHenry County College (0.00/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College (0.58/1k); Triton College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Data source U.S. Department of Education, OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
- incidents / 1,000 students
- 0.12
- of 2,072 ranked nationally
- #47
- safer than ranked campuses its size
- 98%
- Criminal Offenses, 2024
- 0
Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety and Security Survey
Data updated August 2026
Clery Act plate
Sheet 147800 · Oakton College 0.12/1k score rate · #47/2,072
RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE
- RATE-QUIET 0.12/1k
- RANK-TOP #47/2,072
- ST-MID #41 in state
- PEER-FINISH UCNJ Union College of · ±0.00
- ZERO-NONE Scored
- TREND-DOWN ↓ 100%
- CAT-LEAD Burglary
- ENR-MID 8,329
- FIRE-NONE No res filing
Nearest enrollment peer: UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey (-0.00/1k)
Oakton College sheet RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE · peer UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey. Codes from this campus OPE filing: score-category rate, national/state rank, named enrollment peer, zero posture, Criminal Offenses trend, lead category, enrollment band, fire filing. Not a moving recommendation.
Clery plate RATE-QUIET · RANK-TOP · ST-MID · PEER-FINISH · ZERO-NONE · TREND-DOWN · CAT-LEAD · ENR-MID · FIRE-NONE. Nearest similar-enrollment peer is UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey (-0.00/1k). National rank #47 of 2,072 scored campuses. Instrument codes from this campus OPE sheet; compare similarly sized peers before treating any single rate as decisive.
Oakton College reports 0.12 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 - 82% below UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey. Similar-enrollment scored peers: UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey (0.12/1k); Chippewa Valley Technical College (0.12/1k); Lee College (0.00/1k); Waubonsee Community College (0.12/1k); Middle Georgia State University (2.99/1k). Same-state same-level set also includes Waubonsee Community College (0.12/1k); Southwestern Illinois College (1.53/1k); Illinois Central College (1.52/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College (0.64/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College (0.43/1k); McHenry County College (0.00/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College (0.58/1k); Triton College (0.00/1k). Largest Criminal Offenses total across filed years: Burglary.
Peer-rate neighbourhood around Oakton College
Lowest/highest enrollment peers plus campuses nearest Oakton on score-category rate. Full ladder: /rankings/safest-campuses.
- Lee College · lowest peer 0
Lee College — lowest peer
0 per 1,000 students
- Oakton College · this campus 0.12
Oakton College — this campus
0.12 per 1,000 students
- UCNJ Union College of · near 0.12
UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey — near
0.12 per 1,000 students
- Chippewa Valley Technical College · near 0.12
Chippewa Valley Technical College — near
0.12 per 1,000 students
- Waubonsee Community College · near 0.12
Waubonsee Community College — near
0.12 per 1,000 students
- Middle Georgia State University · highest peer
Middle Georgia State University — highest peer
2.99 per 1,000 students
What this shows Neighbourhood of similar-enrollment peers around Oakton College's 0.12/1k rate, not a full-corpus distribution reprint.
Reporting-period change
What changed in 2024
Oakton College was unchanged from 0 to 0 reported on-campus incidents between the 2023 and 2024 reporting years in the U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey.
This is a change in reported incidents, not a measure of individual safety. Enrollment, reporting practice, and category coverage can affect the count.
See national reporting-year changesSignature insight · size does not equal danger
Campus size vs reported safety rate
Among 37 IL 2-year peers in this comparison, Oakton College is larger than 75% and safer-reporting than 64% - the larger, safer-reporting quadrant. Axes are within-sample percentiles so outliers share the same frame; a higher safety percentile means a lower Clery incidents-per-1,000 rate.
Read the chart as text
- Point 1: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 72, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 61
- Point 2: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 78, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 3
- Point 3: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 69, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 8
- Point 4: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 67, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 28
- Point 5: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 81, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 44
- Point 6: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 83, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 7: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 64, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 33
- Point 8: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 86, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 9: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 89, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 10: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 61, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 22
- Point 11: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 58, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 11
- Point 12: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 56, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 14
- Point 13: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 53, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 47
- Point 14: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 50, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 39
- Point 15: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 92, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 17
- Point 16: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 47, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 31
- Point 17: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 44, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 58
- Point 18: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 94, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 36
- Point 19: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 42, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 25
- Point 20: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 39, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 21: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 36, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 22: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 33, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 19
- Point 23: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 31, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 24: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 28, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 56
- Point 25: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 25, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 6
- Point 26: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 22, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 50
- Point 27: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 19, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 0
- Point 28: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 17, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 29: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 14, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 30: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 11, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 31: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 97, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 53
- Point 32: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 8, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 33: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 6, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 34: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 3, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 42
- Point 35: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 100, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Point 36: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 0, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 67
- Oakton College: Enrollment size, percentile in sample 75, Safer-reporting percentile (lower rate) 64
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| Campus | Enrollment | Rate / 1k | Size pct | Safety pct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rend Lake College | 2,015 | 0.00 | 0 | 67 |
| Danville Area Community College | 2,297 | 0.44 | 3 | 42 |
| Richland Community College | 2,388 | 0.00 | 6 | 67 |
| Kankakee Community College | 2,564 | 0.00 | 8 | 67 |
| Illinois Valley Community College | 2,720 | 0.00 | 11 | 67 |
| Prairie State College | 2,953 | 0.00 | 14 | 67 |
| Kishwaukee College | 2,969 | 0.00 | 17 | 67 |
| City Colleges of Chicago-Olive-Harvey College | 3,137 | 2.23 | 19 | 0 |
| John A Logan College | 3,224 | 0.31 | 22 | 50 |
| City Colleges of Chicago-Kennedy-King College | 3,274 | 1.53 | 25 | 6 |
| Morton College | 3,562 | 0.28 | 28 | 56 |
| Oakton College (this campus) | 8,329 | 0.12 | 75 | 64 |
Sample of 12 campuses from the plot (sorted by enrollment). Source: U.S. Department of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey + IPEDS enrollment. Rate = on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 students; lower is safer-reporting, not a personal-risk forecast.
What actually gets reported at Oakton College
Across 3 reporting years, the only Clery Act category with a recorded on-campus incident here is Burglary.
The remaining 10 categories were reported with no on-campus incidents, among them Aggravated Assault, Arson, Fondling and Incest. Under the Clery Act that zero is an affirmative report that nothing in the category occurred, not an absence of data, which is why the table below lists those rows rather than dropping them.
Counts describe incidents reported under the Clery Act for the on-campus geography. Reporting practice varies between institutions, so counts are not a direct measure of relative safety.
Crime Statistics by Year
11 categories 3 reporting years on-campus onlyOakton College: Criminal Offenses by year
Declining 100% (1 → 0 incidents)
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| Period | On-campus incidents |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 1 |
| 2023 | 0 |
| 2024 | 0 |
| Crime Type | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Burglary | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Aggravated Assault | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Arson | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Fondling | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Incest | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Motor Vehicle Theft | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Murder / Non-Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Negligent Manslaughter | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Robbery | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Statutory Rape | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Source: US Dept of Education OPE Campus Safety Survey. Table figures show the Criminal Offenses section; other Clery tables are separate
Arrests & Disciplinary Actions
18 category-year records| Category | Year | Arrests | Discipline |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2023 | 0 | 1 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Drugs | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Liquor | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
| Weapons | 2022 | 0 | 0 |
Oakton College vs peer institutions
Side-by-side safety scores for 3 peers of similar enrollment
Scores are $2024 Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students (lower is fewer in those categories).
NJ
UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey
0.12 incidents / 1,000 students
WI
Chippewa Valley Technical College
0.12 incidents / 1,000 students
Cost context
Where Oakton College sits on price and outcomes
At $5,183, Oakton College's reported average net price is cheaper than 10% among 178 Illinois colleges with a reported figure. The state median is $15,405.
- $5,183
- average net price
- $15,405
- Illinois median
- 7.3×
- six-year earnings to median debt
- $7,584
- reported income-bracket spread
Aid here is steeply income-scaled. Families reporting under $30,000 of income record a net price of $3,847, while those above $110,000 record $11,431 - roughly 3.0 times as much. A published average of $5,183 therefore describes very few families well; the bracket nearest your own income is the more useful figure.
Six years after enrolling, the median former student who received federal aid reports $38,528 - about 7.4 times one year of the reported net price here. On that ratio the cost is recovered quickly. Only 34% complete within six years. Most students here do not finish, which is the single most important number on this page for anyone weighing the cost.
Average net price reflects grant and scholarship aid for aided students, not a personal offer. Earnings cover former students who received federal aid; neither measure predicts an individual's outcome.
Academic & Financial Profile
Tuition & Costs
- In-State Tuition
- $3,985
- Out-of-State Tuition
- $12,462
- Avg Net Price
- $5,183
- Median Debt
- $5,250
- Pell Grant Recipients
- 19%
Outcomes
- Median Earnings (6yr)
- $38,528
- Median Earnings (10yr)
- $47,852
- Loan Repayment (3yr)
- 69%
Source: IPEDS & College Scorecard. Methodology.
Similar Institutions
Showing 5 of 871 similar institutions by enrollment size.
UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey
Cranford, NJ · 8,330 enrolled
Safety Score 0.12
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Eau Claire, WI · 8,330 enrolled
Safety Score 0.12
Lee College
Baytown, TX · 8,323 enrolled
Safety Score 0.00
Waubonsee Community College
Sugar Grove, IL · 8,305 enrolled
Safety Score 0.12
Middle Georgia State University
Macon, GA · 8,363 enrolled
Safety Score 2.99
Closest by National Rank
Oakton College (national rank #47) sits near Waubonsee Community College (#48) and Chippewa Valley Technical College (#46) on the scored national list, nearest by rank, not by size or state.
Waubonsee Community College
Sugar Grove, IL
National Rank #48
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Eau Claire, WI
National Rank #46
UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey
Cranford, NJ
National Rank #45
Las Positas College
Livermore, CA
National Rank #49
Southern Maine Community College
South Portland, ME
National Rank #50
Nationwide campuses with similar scale or Clery rate
Two Clery-derived peer sets for Oakton College, both outside IL so the neighborhoods are not state containment (Similar Institutions and national-rank neighbors above stay enrollment- or rank-based).
Similar enrollment (nationwide)
Chippewa Valley Technical College
Eau Claire, WI · 8,330 enrolled
Safety score 0.12
UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey
Cranford, NJ · 8,330 enrolled
Safety score 0.12
Lee College
Baytown, TX · 8,323 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Waukesha County Technical College
Pewaukee, WI · 8,367 enrolled
Safety score 0.00
Central Texas College
Killeen, TX · 8,373 enrolled
Safety score 0.48
Delta College
University Center, MI · 8,397 enrolled
Safety score 0.24
NorthWest Arkansas Community College
Bentonville, AR · 8,412 enrolled
Safety score 0.12
Victor Valley College
Victorville, CA · 8,423 enrolled
Safety score 0.12
Similar 2024 Clery rate (nationwide)
Ivy Tech Community College
Indianapolis, IN · 110,710 enrolled
Safety score 0.12
Las Positas College
Livermore, CA · 8,103 enrolled
Safety score 0.12
J Sargeant Reynolds Community College
Richmond, VA · 8,681 enrolled
Safety score 0.12
Century College
White Bear Lake, MN · 8,726 enrolled
Safety score 0.11
Frequently Asked Questions
Is Oakton College safe?
Oakton College has a safety score of 0.12 (2024 on-campus Criminal Offenses and VAWA incidents per 1,000 enrolled students) and ranks #47 nationally out of 2,072 ranked institutions - nearest similar-enrollment comparison: UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey (0.12/1k). Same-state same-level set: Waubonsee Community College (0.12/1k); Southwestern Illinois College (1.53/1k); Illinois Central College (1.52/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College (0.64/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College (0.43/1k); McHenry County College (0.00/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College (0.58/1k); Triton College (0.00/1k).
What crimes are reported at Oakton College?
None in the Criminal Offenses section. Oakton College reported zero in every category in that section for calendar year 2024. VAWA, arrests, disciplinary referrals, and fire records are separate tables.
How does Oakton College compare to similar schools?
Oakton College reports 82% fewer 2024 score-category incidents per 1,000 than UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey. Scored similar-enrollment peers on this page: UCNJ Union College of Union County, New Jersey (0.12/1k); Chippewa Valley Technical College (0.12/1k); Lee College (0.00/1k); Waubonsee Community College (0.12/1k); Middle Georgia State University (2.99/1k). Same-state same-level set: Waubonsee Community College (0.12/1k); Southwestern Illinois College (1.53/1k); Illinois Central College (1.52/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Wilbur Wright College (0.64/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Malcolm X College (0.43/1k); McHenry County College (0.00/1k); City Colleges of Chicago-Harry S Truman College (0.58/1k); Triton College (0.00/1k).
Does Oakton College have fire safety data?
Oakton College has no on-campus residential fire filing in this Clery release.
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