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Neighborhood safety · Chicago · data through August 2026

How safe is your Chicago neighborhood?

SafeRoute scores all 77 Chicago community areas 0–100 from incidents reported to the Chicago Police Department — severity-weighted, within 1 km of each area's center, normalized citywide. Higher is safer. The same data powers the SafeRoute app's crime-aware walking routes.

    These figures describe reported crime around each neighborhood's center — they are informational, not a judgment of any community. Note: to protect victims' privacy, the Chicago Police Department publishes incident locations at block level, so dots mark blocks, not addresses. Citywide median index: 57/100.

    Feed current to August 2026covers 7 months13 offence categoriesdata transparency 88/100

    All 77 community areas, safest first

    Neighborhood (safest first)IndexBandIncidents
    Forest Glen95/100Low risk65
    Edison Park93/100Low risk82
    Mount Greenwood92/100Low risk104
    North Park87/100Low risk158
    Garfield Ridge86/100Low risk190
    Hegewisch84/100Low risk205
    Norwood Park84/100Low risk204
    South Deering83/100Low risk214
    Beverly82/100Low risk239
    Jefferson Park80/100Low risk303
    Dunning78/100Low risk288
    Pullman78/100Low risk281
    Clearing77/100Low risk324
    West Lawn76/100Low risk342
    Archer Heights73/100Moderate480
    Ashburn73/100Moderate403
    East Side73/100Moderate418
    O'Hare73/100Moderate461
    Montclare72/100Moderate479
    North Center72/100Moderate491
    Morgan Park70/100Moderate454
    McKinley Park67/100Moderate546
    Calumet Heights65/100Moderate577
    Portage Park65/100Moderate575
    Washington Heights65/100Moderate601
    West Elsdon65/100Moderate587
    Irving Park63/100Moderate630
    Burnside62/100Moderate644
    Lower West Side62/100Moderate654
    Riverdale62/100Moderate590
    Bridgeport60/100Moderate756
    Lincoln Square60/100Moderate797
    Brighton Park58/100Moderate790
    Hermosa58/100Moderate753
    South Lawndale58/100Moderate729
    Armour Square57/100Moderate852
    Avalon Park57/100Moderate786
    Fuller Park57/100Moderate748
    Gage Park57/100Moderate838
    Oakland57/100Moderate851
    West Pullman57/100Moderate793
    West Ridge57/100Moderate789
    Avondale56/100Moderate1,011
    New City56/100Moderate810
    Lincoln Park55/100Moderate1,021
    Roseland55/100Moderate876
    Albany Park54/100Moderate904
    Chatham54/100Moderate906
    Belmont Cragin53/100Moderate937
    Logan Square53/100Moderate1,106
    Near South Side50/100Moderate1,136
    Hyde Park48/100Elevated1,256
    Rogers Park48/100Elevated1,154
    Chicago Lawn47/100Elevated1,189
    Edgewater47/100Elevated1,302
    South Chicago47/100Elevated1,185
    Douglas46/100Elevated1,323
    Washington Park46/100Elevated1,200
    West Englewood46/100Elevated1,205
    Woodlawn45/100Elevated1,291
    Near West Side44/100Elevated1,487
    West Town44/100Elevated1,562
    Englewood43/100Elevated1,302
    Kenwood42/100Elevated1,505
    Auburn Gresham41/100Elevated1,596
    Austin39/100Elevated1,538
    East Garfield Park39/100Elevated1,610
    Grand Boulevard39/100Elevated1,699
    Greater Grand Crossing38/100Elevated1,690
    Uptown37/100Elevated1,918
    Lake View36/100Elevated2,120
    Humboldt Park34/100Elevated2,078
    West Garfield Park33/100Elevated2,107
    North Lawndale30/100Elevated2,320
    South Shore29/100Elevated2,444
    Near North Side26/100Elevated3,668
    The Loop23/100High risk4,046

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    Methodology

    Each incident reported to the Chicago Police Department (via the Chicago Data Portal) is weighted by severity — violence counts for more than shoplifting. For every neighborhood we sum weighted incidents within 1 km of its center, and normalize against citywide crime rates onto a 0–100 index, higher = safer. Boundaries are the City of Chicago's 77 official community areas, the stable units the city itself reports on. Time-of-day charts use Chicago PD incident timestamps, severity-weighted. Locations are published at block level for victim privacy. Pages regenerate as new data is published.

    The index compares areas within Chicago. It is not comparable between cities: each police force publishes a different set of offences over a different period — Chicago's figures cannot be read against another city's on the same 0–100 scale.