Crime reports in South Shore, Chicago

South Shore's 13,841-report extract

South Shore is a South Side lakefront community area on the city's official community-area map. The 13,841 total is every indexed CPD incident assigned to that area. It is not a ranking LocalCrimeVault invented, and it is not a count of people. It is the length of the public neighborhood table.

South Side community areas are often discussed together in news copy. This site keeps them separate. South Shore's 13,841 reports are not Woodlawn, not Greater Grand Crossing, and not South Chicago. Mixing names without mixing tables produces errors. Stay on the South Shore file unless you are building a documented multi-area sum.

The citywide 410,083 total is the shared backdrop. South Shore's 3.4 percent share only means something next to other pages that use that same denominator. Do not import a rate from a blog or a dashboard that used a different year cut or a different agency file.

South Shore's 13,841 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 13,841 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 13,841 as the published extract LocalCrimeVault indexed, then re-pull if you need a new as-of date.

Factual tone for a high-volume neighborhood

Public safety writing about South Shore has a long history of sensational headlines. This page does not follow that pattern. 13,841 is a report count from CPD open data. It does not describe any victim, any accused person, or any block as a morality play.

If you need offense types, use the incident table's published categories. This packet has no type mix, so none is stated here. If you need court results, stop: this dataset does not contain them.

The 410,083 citywide total is the only denominator this packet supports. South Shore's share of about 3.4 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.

Share of Chicago's 410,083 reports

13,841 ÷ 410,083 ≈ 3.4 percent. That arithmetic is the only extra number this guide adds to the packet. It lets a reader see South Shore inside the city file without implying a per-capita rate.

Population, housing, and poverty figures are absent from the packet, so they are absent from the prose. Adding them from memory would violate the fact contract. Cite 13,841 reports and 410,083 citywide, then go to Census or CMAP if you need demographics.

Researchers who need row-level fields should open the incident table at /cities/chicago/neighborhood/community-area-43/ (the name alias is /cities/chicago/neighborhood/south-shore/). This guide is prose about the headline count. It is not a download of the 13,841 rows and it does not add offense-type percents the packet does not contain.

Community area 43 for join keys

South Shore is community area 43. Use 43 when you join this neighborhood to other official Chicago layers. LocalCrimeVault's numbered URL and the South Shore name URL are aliases of the same 13,841-row table.

Browse rows on the incident table. Step up to the Chicago hub for the 410,083 city view. Keep the source note on any chart you build from these pages.

How CPD open data can move

Socrata extracts are republished. Geocodes get corrected. Community-area assignment can change if a location field is repaired. The 13,841 figure is the index snapshot, not a promise that next week's portal query returns the same integer. Re-pull if you need a new as-of date.

Using the South Shore table next to the city hub

The neighborhood hub lists the South Shore rows behind the 13,841 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 13,841, you have left the headline on purpose; say so in the caption.

The Chicago hub is the parent file of 410,083 reports. South Shore's about-3.4 percent share only means something against that parent. Do not paste 13,841 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. 13,841 is the indexed snapshot for South Shore, not a promise that a query on data.cityofchicago.org tomorrow returns the same integer.

Questions

How many crime reports are in South Shore, Chicago?

The indexed CPD feed lists 13,841 incident reports for South Shore, out of 410,083 Chicago reports. South Shore is about 3.4 percent of that city file. These are published police reports. They are not convictions and not a population-based crime rate.

Is South Shore crime data the same as convictions?

No. 13,841 counts Chicago Police incident records in open data. A report can be unfounded or never charged. Court dispositions are not in this extract. Quote South Shore totals as report volume with that limit attached. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Shore's 13,841 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.4 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

What community area is South Shore?

South Shore is Chicago community area 43. That number is the join key for many city shapefiles and CPD bulk tables. LocalCrimeVault maps both the numbered path and the South Shore name slug to the same 13,841 reports. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Shore's 13,841 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.4 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where can I see South Shore incidents?

Open the South Shore incident table for row-level CPD records. The name-based South Shore URL is the same table. Citywide totals (410,083 reports) are on the Chicago crime hub. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. South Shore's 13,841 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 3.4 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.