South Shore Crime Map

South Shore's 13,841-report extract

South Shore is a South Side lakefront community area on the city's official community-area map. The 13,841 total is every indexed CPD incident assigned to that area. It is not a ranking LocalCrimeVault invented, and it is not a count of people. It is the length of the public neighborhood table.

South Side community areas are often discussed together in news copy. This site keeps them separate. South Shore's 13,841 reports are not Woodlawn, not Greater Grand Crossing, and not South Chicago. Mixing names without mixing tables produces errors. Stay on the South Shore file unless you are building a documented multi-area sum.

The citywide 410,083 total is the shared backdrop. South Shore's 3.4 percent share only means something next to other pages that use that same denominator. Do not import a rate from a blog or a dashboard that used a different year cut or a different agency file.

South Shore's 13,841 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 13,841 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 13,841 as the published extract LocalCrimeVault indexed, then re-pull if you need a new as-of date.

Factual tone for a high-volume neighborhood

Public safety writing about South Shore has a long history of sensational headlines. This page does not follow that pattern. 13,841 is a report count from CPD open data. It does not describe any victim, any accused person, or any block as a morality play.

If you need offense types, use the incident table's published categories. This packet has no type mix, so none is stated here. If you need court results, stop: this dataset does not contain them.

The 410,083 citywide total is the only denominator this packet supports. South Shore's share of about 3.4 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.

Questions

How many crime reports are in South Shore, Chicago?

The indexed CPD feed lists 13,841 incident reports for South Shore, out of 410,083 Chicago reports. South Shore is about 3.4 percent of that city file. These are published police reports. They are not convictions and not a population-based crime rate.

Is South Shore crime data the same as convictions?

No. 13,841 counts Chicago Police incident records in open data. A report can be unfounded or never charged. Court dispositions are not in this extract. Quote South Shore totals as report volume with that limit attached. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Shore's 13,841 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.4 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

What community area is South Shore?

South Shore is Chicago community area 43. That number is the join key for many city shapefiles and CPD bulk tables. LocalCrimeVault maps both the numbered path and the South Shore name slug to the same 13,841 reports. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Shore's 13,841 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.4 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where can I see South Shore incidents?

Open the South Shore incident table for row-level CPD records. The name-based South Shore URL is the same table. Citywide totals (410,083 reports) are on the Chicago crime hub. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Shore's 13,841 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.4 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.