Chicago crime — March 2025

What 19,355 measures in March

Each of the 19,355 rows is a published police incident whose report date sits in 2025-03. Primary types are mixed. This page will not publish a violent-crime subtotal or a property-crime subtotal because those splits are not in the packet. Filter IUCR labels on the overlay if you need one type.

March sits at the winter-to-spring turn on the civic calendar. St. Patrick's Day, spring break, and weather shifts are not packet facts. If those days produced reports, they are inside 19,355 only when the report date is in March. Do not treat 19,355 as a parade-route statistic.

Occurrence date is a separate CPD column. This harvest does not give a count of March occurrences that were reported later, or of earlier occurrences reported in March. Stay with report date as the membership rule for 19,355.

A Chicago 2025-03 citation that names 19,355 without saying report date is incomplete. Parade-day pins, if they appear on the overlay, are report locations, not a St. Patrick's Day subtotal. This packet has one integer. Occurrence date can sit outside March. Read the table headers before you write that an event happened in March. Arrest flags remain report attributes. Court files are elsewhere.

Official community areas, city-wide total

When CPD populated the community area field, the overlay shows the official name. The 19,355 headline is still Chicago as a whole. Adding a handful of areas will undershoot 19,355 if other rows are blank or filtered out.

Map pins are block-level public geography. They are not door-level identifications. A dense March cluster is a set of report locations, not a named-building accusation.

Researchers who need one official area should filter the 2025-03 table rather than quoting 19,355 as that area's volume.

On the 2025-03 overlay, official community area names are the geography this Chicago index supports when CPD published them. The 19,355 headline is not Austin, not Near North Side, and not any other single official area. Researchers who need one area should filter the table and caption the subset as a subset. Block-level coordinates, when present, are offset public-record locations. They do not identify a resident, a school, or a storefront by street number. CPD incident rows can lack an area; those rows still sit inside 19,355. LocalCrimeVault does not impute a community area to complete a pin map. Festival-corridor or lakefront density, if you observe it after sorting, is a table observation about report locations, not a packet fact about event crime. Keep 19,355 attached to Chicago as a whole for 2025-03.

Questions

How many CPD incidents does LocalCrimeVault index for 2025-03?

The current indexed total is 19,355 incidents with a report date in 2025-03. Source: Chicago Police Department open data. The mix includes every IUCR primary type in that window. The figure is a police-report count, not a conviction count. 19,355 is the current indexed total for Chicago report dates in 2025-03, drawn from Chicago Police Department records on city open data. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify charges. Later harvests can still move the integer.

Does 19,355 isolate St. Patrick's Day reports?

No. The packet has one month total. Parade-day or holiday reports, if they exist in the extract, are inside 19,355 when the report date falls in 2025-03. Filter the overlay by date for a narrower window. This page does not publish an event subtotal.

Is the March total limited to one community area?

No. 19,355 is city-wide. Official community area names appear when CPD published them. Some rows lack an area. Use the table filter for a single official area; do not treat the headline as that area's count. 19,355 is city-wide for Chicago. Official community area names appear when the source published them. Some rows lack geography. Filter the overlay for a single official community area; do not treat the headline as that area's volume. Block-level pins are not household identifications.

If a March row has an arrest flag, is that a conviction?

No. Arrest flags are attributes of police reports. Court outcomes are a different system. LocalCrimeVault indexes CPD incidents by report date and does not treat 19,355 as a guilty-finding total. Public incident rows for Chicago in 2025-03 are Chicago Police Department reports across IUCR primary types. An arrest field is not a court finding. LocalCrimeVault indexes by report date and does not treat 19,355 as a guilty-finding total. Court outcomes live in a different system.