West Town Crime Map
13,678 incidents on record in West Town (Community Area 24), Chicago.
West Town is assigned 12,323 Chicago Police incident reports in the indexed open-data extract, against 410,083 reports citywide. That share is about 3.0 percent of the Chicago file. CPD publishes the underlying rows on the city's Socrata portal. LocalCrimeVault counts those rows as reports, not as convictions. Readers who need West Town in city context should keep 12,323 next to 410,083 and remember that about 3.0 percent is a rounded share of indexed CPD reports, not a crime rate and not a conviction share.
Key figures
- West Town has 12,323 indexed CPD incident reports (12323 of 410083).
- The Chicago extract contains 410,083 reports citywide.
- West Town is about 3.0 percent of that city file.
- The headline is the official community area, not a pocket subset.
- These figures are police reports, not convictions.
West Town's place in the city extract
12,323 is the neighborhood total for West Town in this CPD index. The official community area covers a wide West Side geography that residents often split into smaller named pockets in conversation. CPD's published field is the community area, not those informal pocket names. This page follows the official assignment, so the 12,323 figure is the area total, not a Wicker Park-only or Ukrainian Village-only subset.
If a blog quotes a smaller West Town number, check whether it filtered to a sub-neighborhood, a shorter date window, or a single offense type. None of those filters are applied to the 12,323 headline. The incident table is where you apply them.
Citywide, 410,083 reports set the scale. West Town's 3.0 percent share is a slice of that published feed. It is not a safety grade and not a comparison to suburbs.
What the police report count is not
It is not a conviction count. It is not an arrest rate. It is not a list of people. Each of the 12,323 rows is a CPD incident record as released in open data, which may omit or mask identifiers under publication rules.
It is also not a claim about any ethnic or business community inside West Town. Report volume is a geographic statistic. Keep commentary on people out of the citation unless you have another source.
Full neighborhood guide: Crime reports in West Town, Chicago →
Questions
- How many crime reports are in West Town, Chicago?
- LocalCrimeVault indexes 12,323 CPD incident reports for West Town, out of 410,083 Chicago reports. That is about 3.0 percent of the city file. The total is the official community-area extract, not a smaller pocket such as a single informal sub-neighborhood.
- Are West Town crime stats convictions?
- No. The 12,323 figure counts published Chicago Police reports. Court outcomes are not in this feed. When you quote West Town, say report volume, not convictions or guilty findings. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. West Town's 12,323 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.0 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.
- Does West Town's total include only one part of the area?
- No. 12,323 is the community-area total as CPD coded it. Informal names inside West Town are not separate files on this page. Filter the incident table if you need a smaller geography that the rows can support. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. West Town's 12,323 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.0 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.
- Where is the West Town incident list?
- Use the West Town incident table for the 12,323 indexed rows. The name slug matches the numbered community-area path. The Chicago crime hub holds the 410,083 citywide total. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. West Town's 12,323 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.0 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.
Chicago Police Department incidents via the city open-data portal (Socrata), indexed on LocalCrimeVault. Counts are reports, not convictions.