Burglary in Chicago — Crime Statistics 2026

Burglary is entry, not robbery

Illinois and IUCR treat burglary as entering a building without authority with intent to commit a theft or felony. Robbery is taking property by force or threat, usually from a person. Theft is taking without that force and often without that entry. CPD keeps the three as separate primary types. This page's 17,300 rows are only burglary.

Residential versus commercial burglary, and attempted versus completed, may appear in IUCR codes or descriptions on the table. The packet facts do not include those splits, so none are quoted here. Forced-entry language on a row is CPD's wording, not a LocalCrimeVault recode.

Attempted burglary language, when CPD wrote it, stays on the row. This page does not publish an attempt subtotal because the packet facts give 17,300 as one primary-type count among 410,083 city incidents. Filter IUCR codes on the overlay if you need that cut, and keep CPD's wording in the footnote.

Volume among 410,083 city incidents

At 17,300 reports, about 4.2 percent of indexed Chicago incidents carry IUCR primary type Burglary. That share is about report volume in a harvest of 410,083 city reports, not about which events residents fear most.

Burglary maps are sensitive. A pin at a block does not identify a household by name. Official community area labels are the city's 77 areas. Dense counts can reflect apartment stock, commercial strips, or reporting habits. The open-data file does not assign a cause.

Apartment-dense community areas can show more burglary reports because there are more units, more doors, and more chances to file. The open-data file does not adjust for housing stock. Official community area names are the city's 77 areas. A raw rank of 17,300-row geography is not a burglary rate.

Questions

How many burglary reports are in the Chicago index?

This extract lists 17,300 Chicago incidents with IUCR primary type Burglary, about 4.2 percent of 410,083 city reports. The source is Chicago Police Department open data. The figure counts police reports, not convictions, unique burglars, or dollar losses. LocalCrimeVault does not reclassify CPD charges. Burglary is 17,300 of 410,083 indexed Chicago incidents in this harvest.

Is burglary the same as robbery in Chicago data?

No. Burglary is unlawful entry of a structure as CPD coded it. Robbery is taking property by force or threat. Theft is taking without that force. This page covers only the 17,300 burglary rows. Mixing the types inflates property-crime or person-crime totals depending on how you group them.

Does the table show residential versus commercial burglary?

Those distinctions may appear in IUCR codes or descriptions on individual rows. The packet facts supply one primary-type total, 17,300, so this narrative does not publish a residential subtotal. Filter the live table and keep CPD's labels. Community areas are official city geography. The packet has one total, 17,300; filter the table for residential codes.

Does a burglary incident mean someone was convicted?

No. Public rows are reports. They can exist without an arrest or after charges are declined. The 17,300 count is report volume among 410,083 indexed Chicago incidents. Court records are a different system than the city open-data crime file. Quote 17,300 as CPD report volume among 410,083 city incidents, not as verdicts.