Crime reports in South Lawndale, Chicago

Official name, official 6,375-row extract

South Lawndale is the official community-area name in the city's community-area system. Informal names people use for parts of this geography are not separate CPD community-area files on this site. 6,375 is the official-area total as indexed from open data.

North Lawndale is a different community area with its own page. The two Lawndales are not combined here. 6,375 is South Lawndale only.

Against 410,083 citywide reports, South Lawndale is about 1.6 percent of the index. That share is a partition of the city file, not a rate.

South Lawndale's 6,375 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 6,375 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 6,375 as the published extract LocalCrimeVault indexed, then re-pull if you need a new as-of date.

What the police file supports

Each of the 6,375 rows is a published CPD incident. Publication is not a conviction. Arrest and charge fields, when present, still are not court findings.

This overlay does not invent an offense mix. Use the incident table for CPD's published categories. Keep commentary about residents out of the headline number; the statistic is geographic.

The 410,083 citywide total is the only denominator this packet supports. South Lawndale's share of about 1.6 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.

1.6 percent of indexed Chicago reports

6,375 ÷ 410,083 ≈ 1.6 percent. Lower West Side and Near West Side are different West Side areas. Do not add them to South Lawndale.

Population is not in the packet. This page therefore does not divide 6,375 by residents.

Researchers who need row-level fields should open the incident table at /cities/chicago/neighborhood/community-area-30/ (the name alias is /cities/chicago/neighborhood/south-lawndale/). This guide is prose about the headline count. It is not a download of the 6,375 rows and it does not add offense-type percents the packet does not contain.

Community area 30

South Lawndale is community area 30. Use 30 for joins. The numbered URL and the South Lawndale name URL both open the 6,375-row table.

Citywide context is the Chicago hub (410,083 reports). Neighborhood context is the incident table.

How to cite without merging Lawndales

Write South Lawndale, 6,375 indexed CPD reports, of 410,083 citywide, reports not convictions. If you also quote North Lawndale, keep the two integers on two lines. A combined 'Lawndale' figure is a custom sum, not this page.

Using the South Lawndale table next to the city hub

The neighborhood hub lists the South Lawndale rows behind the 6,375 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 6,375, you have left the headline on purpose; say so in the caption.

The Chicago hub is the parent file of 410,083 reports. South Lawndale's about-1.6 percent share only means something against that parent. Do not paste 6,375 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. 6,375 is the indexed snapshot for South Lawndale, not a promise that a query on data.cityofchicago.org tomorrow returns the same integer.

South Lawndale sits in a published police extract, not in a private RMS dump. Anyone reproducing 6,375 for South Lawndale should keep the city denominator of 410,083 in the same paragraph so readers can see the about-1.6 percent share. If a later index rebuild changes South Lawndale'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 Lawndale, Chicago?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 6,375 CPD incident reports for South Lawndale, out of 410,083 Chicago reports. That is about 1.6 percent of the city file. North Lawndale is not included. The figure counts police reports, not convictions. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Lawndale's 6,375 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.6 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

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

No. South Lawndale has 6,375 indexed reports on this page. North Lawndale has a separate extract. Combining them is a custom geography you must label yourself. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Lawndale's 6,375 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.6 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are South Lawndale totals convictions?

No. 6,375 is a Chicago Police open-data incident count. Court outcomes are not in this file. Quote report volume only. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Lawndale's 6,375 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.6 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the South Lawndale incident table?

The South Lawndale incident table holds the 6,375 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 Lawndale's 6,375 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.6 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.