Crime reports in Lower West Side, Chicago

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.

1.1 percent of indexed Chicago reports

4,669 ÷ 410,083 ≈ 1.1 percent. Washington Heights has a similar share in this index. The two areas are not related files.

Hyde Park's share is also near 1.1 percent with a different raw count. Keep South Side and West Side pages apart.

No population divisor is in the packet.

The alias path /cities/chicago/neighborhood/lower-west-side/ is not a second dataset. It exists so a searcher typing Lower West Side does not have to know the community-area integer. The canonical overlay table is /cities/chicago/neighborhood/community-area-31/.

Community area 31

Lower West Side is community area 31. Use 31 for joins. The numbered URL and the Lower West Side name URL both open the 4,669-row table.

The incident table holds rows. The Chicago hub holds 410,083 citywide reports.

Citation

Lower West Side has 4,669 indexed CPD incident reports in city open data (LocalCrimeVault), of 410,083 citywide; reports not convictions; not a blended West Side total.

Using the Lower West Side table next to the city hub

The neighborhood hub lists the Lower West Side rows behind the 4,669 total. Sort and filter there for dates and published CPD type codes. This packet has no type mix, so this guide will not invent one. If a type filter reduces the table below 4,669, you have left the headline on purpose; say so in the caption.

The Chicago hub is the parent file of 410,083 reports. Lower West Side's about-1.1 percent share only means something against that parent. Do not paste 4,669 into a story that already used a different city total. Pair the two integers, name CPD open data, and keep the reports-not-convictions clause on the same screen as the number.

If you export rows, you are still looking at police reports. Geocodes may be offset to a block. Some addresses are blank. Community-area assignment can change when CPD repairs a location. 4,669 is the indexed snapshot for Lower West Side, not a promise that a query on data.cityofchicago.org tomorrow returns the same integer.

Analysts who join Lower West Side to Census tracts must still start from the community-area extract of 4,669 reports. Tract-level crime is a different construction and is not this packet. Keep Lower West Side's about-1.1 percent share attached to the 410,083 city total. If a tract map and this page disagree, the geographies differ; do not force them to match.

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.