City overview
Chicago
77 neighborhoods covered by the Chicago police open-data feed. Browse a specific area below or jump into the live app.
Citywide Safety Index
Chicago (citywide) reports close to the FBI national rate.
persons: 745/100k vs FBI 379.5/100k (+96%)property: 4155/100k vs FBI 1934.1/100k (+115%)
Source: FBI UCR national rate per 100k (2023 revised, per CIUS 2024) · newest report Jul 1, 2026
Compare Chicago to another city
Pick a city to render its citywide safety card below — both compared to the FBI national average.
Neighborhoods
- Albany Park
- Archer Heights
- Armour Square
- Ashburn
- Auburn Gresham
- Austin
- Avalon Park
- Avondale
- Belmont Cragin
- Beverly
- Bridgeport
- Brighton Park
- Burnside
- Calumet Heights
- Chatham
- Chicago Lawn
- Clearing
- Douglas
- Dunning
- East Garfield Park
- East Side
- Edgewater
- Edison Park
- Englewood
- Forest Glen
- Fuller Park
- Gage Park
- Garfield Ridge
- Grand Boulevard
- Greater Grand Crossing
- Hegewisch
- Hermosa
- Humboldt Park
- Hyde Park
- Irving Park
- Jefferson Park
- Kenwood
- Lake View
- Lincoln Park
- Lincoln Square
- Logan Square
- Loop
- Lower West Side
- McKinley Park
- Montclare
- Morgan Park
- Mount Greenwood
- Near North Side
- Near South Side
- Near West Side
- New City
- North Center
- North Lawndale
- North Park
- Norwood Park
- O'Hare
- Oakland
- Portage Park
- Pullman
- Riverdale
- Rogers Park
- Roseland
- South Chicago
- South Deering
- South Lawndale
- South Shore
- Uptown
- Washington Heights
- Washington Park
- West Elsdon
- West Englewood
- West Garfield Park
- West Lawn
- West Pullman
- West Ridge
- West Town
- Woodlawn
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How to read this: CommunitySafe summarizes publicly published police reports. Scores reflect historical reporting only — not predictions of future risk, and not a substitute for professional safety advice. These scores should not be used as the sole basis for housing, lending, insurance, or hiring decisions — verify each statistic with the cited official source before acting on it. See /methodology for how the index is computed.
About Chicago safety data
This overview aggregates Chicago's official police open-data feed across 77 neighborhoods and compares it to the FBI Crime Data Explorer 2023 national rate per 100,000 residents. Chicago currently carries a citywide Safety Index of C. Chicago (citywide) reports close to the FBI national rate.
Use the neighborhood list above to drill into a specific area — every area has its own running incident timeline and category breakdown. Safety is local: a citywide grade smooths over real differences between neighborhoods, so we always recommend reading the area you actually care about rather than the headline number. For the full data sourcing, population normalization, and grade thresholds, see our methodology. To compare Chicago against another metro, use the comparison tool above.