Crime reports in South Chicago, Chicago

South Chicago is not the South Side

South Chicago is one official community area on the Southeast Side. It is not a synonym for every South Side neighborhood. The 6,300 total is this area only. South Shore, South Deering, and East Side are different files.

Searchers mix 'South Chicago' with 'Chicago Lawn' and with 'south side crime.' This page answers one question: 6,300 indexed CPD reports coded to the South Chicago community area.

The citywide 410,083 figure is the parent extract. South Chicago's 1.5 percent share is a slice of that parent, not a region-wide South Side percentage.

South Chicago's 6,300 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 6,300 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 6,300 as the published extract LocalCrimeVault indexed, then re-pull if you need a new as-of date.

Report volume, stated once

6,300 is a count of published police incidents. It is not 6,300 convictions. It is not a claim about every person who lives in South Chicago.

Industrial lakefront geography is not a separate subtotal in this packet. Do not assign the entire 6,300 to a mill, a park, or a single street. Assign it to the community-area tag.

The 410,083 citywide total is the only denominator this packet supports. South Chicago's share of about 1.5 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.

1.5 percent of indexed Chicago reports

6,300 ÷ 410,083 ≈ 1.5 percent. Woodlawn and East Garfield Park have similar shares in this index. Keep the names on separate pages.

No rate is offered. Population is not in the packet.

Researchers who need row-level fields should open the incident table at /cities/chicago/neighborhood/community-area-46/ (the name alias is /cities/chicago/neighborhood/south-chicago/). This guide is prose about the headline count. It is not a download of the 6,300 rows and it does not add offense-type percents the packet does not contain.

Community area 46

South Chicago is community area 46. Use 46 for joins. The numbered path and the South Chicago name path both open the 6,300-row table.

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

Disambiguation line for citations

Write 'South Chicago community area' when you quote 6,300 so readers do not hear 'the South Side.' Pair it with 410,083 citywide and with reports-not-convictions.

Using the South Chicago table next to the city hub

The neighborhood hub lists the South Chicago rows behind the 6,300 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 6,300, you have left the headline on purpose; say so in the caption.

The Chicago hub is the parent file of 410,083 reports. South Chicago's about-1.5 percent share only means something against that parent. Do not paste 6,300 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. 6,300 is the indexed snapshot for South Chicago, not a promise that a query on data.cityofchicago.org tomorrow returns the same integer.

South Chicago sits in a published police extract, not in a private RMS dump. Anyone reproducing 6,300 for South Chicago should keep the city denominator of 410,083 in the same paragraph so readers can see the about-1.5 percent share. If a later index rebuild changes South Chicago's integer, replace the caption rather than silently editing old charts. The unit remains a CPD incident report as released on the city portal.

Questions

How many crime reports are in South Chicago?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 6,300 CPD incident reports for the South Chicago community area, out of 410,083 reports citywide. That is about 1.5 percent of the city file. The total is not a South Side rollup. It counts police reports, not convictions.

Is South Chicago the same as the South Side in this data?

No. South Chicago is one community area with 6,300 indexed reports. The South Side contains many official areas, each with its own extract. This page does not sum them. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Chicago's 6,300 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.5 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are South Chicago figures convictions?

No. 6,300 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. South Chicago's 6,300 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.5 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the South Chicago incident table?

The South Chicago incident table lists the 6,300 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. South Chicago's 6,300 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.5 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.