Crime reports in North Lawndale, Chicago

A public-record total, stated plainly

10,896 is the count of indexed CPD incidents coded to North Lawndale. The West Side community area has been the subject of a great deal of outside commentary. This page adds none of that commentary. It states the open-data total, the city denominator (410,083), and the limits of a police-report file.

Respectful citation means not using 10,896 as a punchline or as proof of a story you already wanted to tell. The number is the size of a public table. Victims and accused persons in those rows are not characters for a narrative on this site.

If you need trends, you still start here: filter the North Lawndale table by date yourself. This packet does not include a year-over-year change, so none is written.

A high or low raw count is not a safety grade. North Lawndale's 10,896 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 North Lawndale 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 10,896 is a category error.

Reports versus the justice-system path

CPD open data stops at the incident record as published. Prosecutors, judges, and juries operate in other systems. The 10,896 North Lawndale rows should never be described as 10,896 crimes proven in court.

Unfounded reports, recodes, and missing clearance fields are normal in municipal extracts. Absence of an arrest on a row is not a finding of innocence or guilt. It is a missing or negative field in a police file.

North Lawndale is about 2.7 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.

2.7 percent of the Chicago extract

10,896 ÷ 410,083 ≈ 2.7 percent. North Lawndale's share is a bookkeeping fact about how the city file is partitioned by community area. It is not a per-capita rate. This packet has no population figure, so no rate is computed.

South Lawndale is a different community area with its own page. Do not merge the two Lawndales. The 10,896 total is North Lawndale only.

The alias path /cities/chicago/neighborhood/north-lawndale/ is not a second dataset. It exists so a searcher typing North Lawndale does not have to know the community-area integer. The canonical overlay table is /cities/chicago/neighborhood/community-area-29/.

Community area 29

North Lawndale is community area 29 in the official Chicago list. Use 29 when joining shapefiles or CPD bulk dumps. The numbered LocalCrimeVault path and the North Lawndale name path both serve the 10,896-row table.

Citywide browsing stays on the Chicago hub (410,083 reports). Neighborhood work stays on the incident table.

How to quote this page

A complete quote looks like: North Lawndale has 10,896 indexed CPD incident reports in LocalCrimeVault's Chicago extract of 410,083, from city open data, reports not convictions. Shorter quotes should keep the last clause. Dropping it turns a public-record count into an accusation.

Using the North Lawndale table next to the city hub

The neighborhood hub lists the North Lawndale rows behind the 10,896 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 10,896, you have left the headline on purpose; say so in the caption.

The Chicago hub is the parent file of 410,083 reports. North Lawndale's about-2.7 percent share only means something against that parent. Do not paste 10,896 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. 10,896 is the indexed snapshot for North Lawndale, not a promise that a query on data.cityofchicago.org tomorrow returns the same integer.

Questions

How many police reports are in North Lawndale?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 10,896 CPD incident reports for North Lawndale, Chicago, out of 410,083 citywide. That is about 2.7 percent of the published city file. The number counts police reports, not convictions, and it does not include South Lawndale. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. North Lawndale's 10,896 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 2.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Is North Lawndale the same as South Lawndale in this data?

No. North Lawndale's 10,896 reports are a separate community-area extract. South Lawndale has its own file on this site. Combining them requires an explicit method. This page does not combine them. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. North Lawndale's 10,896 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 2.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are these North Lawndale numbers convictions?

No. 10,896 is a CPD open-data incident count. Court findings are not in the Socrata police extract LocalCrimeVault indexes. Quote the figure as report volume only. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. North Lawndale's 10,896 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 2.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the North Lawndale incident table?

The North Lawndale incident table holds the rows behind 10,896 reports. The name-based URL is an alias. The Chicago crime hub shows the 410,083 citywide total. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. North Lawndale's 10,896 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 2.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.