Lower West Side Crime Map

Official name versus informal pocket names

Lower West Side is the official community-area name. Informal names people use for parts of this geography are not extra CPD area codes on this page. 4,669 is the official-area total. South Lawndale and Near West Side are different files.

The phrase 'West Side' in casual speech covers many community areas. This extract is Lower West Side only: 4,669 indexed reports.

Citywide 410,083 reports are the parent. Lower West Side's 1.1 percent share is a slice of that parent, not a rate.

A high or low raw count is not a safety grade. Lower West Side's 4,669 reports describe documentation volume inside an official boundary. Commercial corridors, arterial streets, and housing density can all raise row counts without appearing as separate columns in this packet, so they are not used here as explanations.

When you chart Lower West Side next to another community area, use the same city extract (410,083) and the same unit (incident reports). Mixing arrest counts, shooting dashboards, or 311 noise complaints into the same bar as 4,669 is a category error.

What a report count can and cannot do

4,669 measures published CPD incidents coded to Lower West Side. It does not measure convictions. It does not measure a festival-weekend subset or a single commercial street unless you filter the table yourself.

This overlay stays factual. It does not treat the neighborhood as a character. Location-coded police data is a geography statistic.

Lower West Side is about 1.1 percent of indexed city reports. If that share looks small, remember the city file is 410,083 rows; a one-percent slice is still thousands of public records. If it looks large, remember it is still one official community area, not a citywide score.

Questions

How many crime reports are in Lower West Side, Chicago?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 4,669 CPD incident reports for Lower West Side, out of 410,083 Chicago reports. That is about 1.1 percent of the city file. Near West Side and South Lawndale are not included. The figure counts police reports, not convictions.

Is Lower West Side the same as Near West Side?

No. Lower West Side has 4,669 indexed reports on this page. Near West Side is a separate official community area with its own extract. Casual 'West Side' language is not a CPD area code. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Lower West Side's 4,669 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.1 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are Lower West Side numbers convictions?

No. 4,669 counts published Chicago Police reports. Court outcomes are not in this extract. Quote report volume. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Lower West Side's 4,669 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.1 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the Lower West Side incident table?

Use the Lower West Side incident table for the 4,669 indexed rows. The name slug aliases the numbered path. Citywide 410,083 reports are on the Chicago crime hub. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Lower West Side's 4,669 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.1 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.