Albany Park Crime Map

What the 3,900-report count includes

The 3,900 figure is a neighborhood slice of CPD incident records that the city releases as open data. Each row is a report the department logged and later published. A report can describe a call for service, an officer-initiated contact, or a follow-up entry. It does not, by itself, prove that a crime occurred as first described, that a person was charged, or that a court later found anyone guilty. LocalCrimeVault does not add rows, drop “minor” reports, or blend in court dockets. If a record is in the published extract and assigned to Albany Park, it is part of the 3,900.

The geography is Chicago’s official community-area map, not informal block nicknames. Coordinates or area codes in the source file decide membership. A resident might describe an address with a different local name and still see that report counted here if CPD geocoded it into Albany Park. The reverse is also true: a report a resident thinks of as “in Albany Park” will sit in another slice if the extract assigned it elsewhere. The incident table is the place to inspect those assignments rather than arguing with the headline total.

Albany Park’s share of Chicago’s 410,083 reports

Chicago’s indexed file holds 410,083 incident reports citywide. Albany Park’s 3,900 rows are about 0.95 percent of that file, or roughly one of every 105 published reports. That share is a statement about how the open-data extract is distributed across community areas. It is not a ranking of neighborhood safety, a per-capita rate, or a forecast of future calls. This packet does not include population, so a percentage of reports is not a rate per resident.

A share under one percent still represents thousands of records. It also means more than 99 percent of the indexed file sits in other community areas. Keep both facts in view. Quoting 3,900 without 410,083 makes Albany Park look like an isolated pile of reports. Quoting the share without the raw count hides the size of the local slice. Community areas are large: a few corridors can account for many rows while other streets contribute few. The table, not the percentage, is where that internal mix appears.

Questions

How many CPD incident reports are indexed for Albany Park?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 3,900 Chicago Police Department incident reports for Albany Park. That total is a slice of 410,083 citywide CPD records from the city’s open-data portal. The number counts published police reports. It does not count convictions, and it does not by itself describe the mix of offense types in the table.

Are Albany Park crime numbers convictions?

No. The 3,900 figure is a count of public CPD incident reports. A report can be unfounded, reclassified, or closed without a charge. Court outcomes live in a different system. Quote Albany Park’s total as police reports drawn from Chicago open data, not as guilty findings or as a finished prosecution tally.

What share of Chicago reports come from Albany Park?

Albany Park’s 3,900 reports are about 0.95 percent of the 410,083 CPD incidents in the citywide index, or about one in 105 published rows. That percentage describes how the open-data file is split across community areas. It is not a crime rate, because this packet does not include population or a time window.

Where can I see the underlying Albany Park rows?

Open the Albany Park incident table for the community-area overlay, or use the named Albany Park path if you prefer the neighborhood label. For citywide context, use the Chicago crime hub, which holds the parent 410,083-report index. All three links stay inside this site’s Chicago CPD collection.