Austin Crime Map
22,862 incidents on record in Austin (Community Area 25), Chicago.
Austin accounts for 20,435 Chicago Police Department incident reports in the city open-data index on LocalCrimeVault, out of 410,083 reports citywide. That share is about 5.0 percent of indexed Chicago reports. The figures come from CPD records published through the city's Socrata portal. They count police reports, not court findings or convictions.
Key figures
- Austin has 20,435 indexed CPD incident reports (20435 of 410083).
- Chicago's indexed citywide total in the same feed is 410,083 reports.
- Austin is about 5.0 percent of that citywide report count.
- These figures are police reports, not convictions.
What the 20,435 Austin reports include
The 20,435 figure is a count of incident records assigned to Austin in the CPD open-data feed that LocalCrimeVault indexes. Each row is a police report: a call, stop, or other documented event that CPD published with a community-area field. The number is not a resident population, a victimization survey, or a conviction tally. It is the size of the public table for this West Side neighborhood.
Because Austin's count is large relative to many other Chicago community areas in the same index, the neighborhood page is a high-volume slice of the city file. 20,435 reports sit inside a citywide pool of 410,083. Readers comparing neighborhoods should keep that denominator in view: a high raw count can reflect reporting volume, geographic size, and how CPD codes location, not a single unofficial ranking.
Researchers who join this page to other city files should know Austin is community area 25 in the official Chicago numbering system. The numbered path and the name-based path on this site point at the same incident table. Use the name in prose; use the number when matching Census, planning, or CPD extracts that still key off the official community-area list.
Austin's 20,435 reports are whatever CPD published with this community-area assignment in the indexed snapshot. Beats, districts, and wards are different geographies. If a map you saw used beats, it will not match 20,435 even when the street looks familiar. Stay on the community-area table when you cite this page.
Open data is not a live dispatch feed. A scanner or a 911 tracker can show events that have not yet appeared as Socrata rows, and the reverse can also happen when CPD republishes older records. Treat 20,435 as the published extract LocalCrimeVault indexed, then re-pull if you need a new as-of date.
Reports are not convictions
CPD open data records what officers documented, not what a prosecutor charged or a court decided. Duplicate calls, unfounded reports, and incidents later reclassified can still appear as rows. A missing arrest field does not prove that nothing happened; a present arrest field does not prove a guilty finding. Treat every Austin total on this page as a report count.
LocalCrimeVault does not add narrative color to individual cases. The overlay and the incident table are for people who need a public-record baseline: journalists checking a beat, residents reading official volume, and analysts who already know that open data lags live CAD and omits sealed or restricted records.
The 410,083 citywide total is the only denominator this packet supports. Austin's share of about 5.0 percent is comparable to other LocalCrimeVault Chicago neighborhood pages that use that same city file. It is not comparable to FBI city tables, OEMC call logs, or a vendor dashboard that used a different cut.
Full neighborhood guide: Crime reports in Austin, Chicago →
Questions
- How many crime reports are there in Austin, Chicago?
- LocalCrimeVault indexes 20,435 Chicago Police incident reports for Austin, out of 410,083 reports citywide in the same feed. That is about 5.0 percent of indexed Chicago reports. The number counts published police reports, not convictions, arrests as a share of reports, or a population-based crime rate.
- Are Austin crime numbers convictions?
- No. The 20,435 total is a count of CPD incident records in the city's open-data portal. A report can be unfounded, reclassified, or never charged. Court outcomes live in a different system. Use this page for public police-report volume in Austin, not for guilt or sentencing.
- What Chicago community area is Austin?
- Austin is the official name for Chicago community area 25. CPD and many city planning files still use that number. LocalCrimeVault files Austin reports under both the numbered path and the Austin name slug so researchers can match either key without changing the underlying 20,435-row extract.
- Where can I see the Austin incident list?
- Open the Austin incident table on LocalCrimeVault for the row-level CPD extract behind the 20,435 count. The Chicago crime hub shows the citywide 410,083 total. The name-based Austin URL is an alias of the same neighborhood table, not a second dataset.
Chicago Police Department incidents via the city open-data portal (Socrata), indexed on LocalCrimeVault. Counts are reports, not convictions.