Crime reports in Uptown, Chicago

North Side lakefront area, one official total

Uptown's 7,093 reports are coded to the official community area, which includes lakefront and inland blocks under one CPD community-area field. This packet has no split between those settings. 7,093 is the combined official extract.

Edgewater sits north and Lake View sits south on the community-area map; both have their own pages. Do not add them to Uptown. The 7,093 figure stays here.

Citywide 410,083 reports remain the parent file. Uptown's 1.7 percent share is a partition of that file, not a safety score.

CPD's community-area field is a polygon join, not a neighborhood nickname. Uptown's 7,093 total follows that polygon. Informal names people use for a few blocks inside the area do not get their own integer in this index. If you need a tighter geography, filter published coordinates or blocks on the table, and say that you left the 7,093 headline.

Sealed, restricted, and some sensitive incident types may be missing or sparse in the public file. 7,093 is therefore a lower bound on "everything CPD ever wrote down," not an upper bound on "everything that occurred." Quote it as published reports.

Open data without a case narrative

7,093 Uptown rows are police documentation. Some will have arrests; many will not. None of the headline is a conviction tally. Court systems are separate.

Housing, hospitals, and transit inside Uptown are not broken out as subtotals in this packet. Do not attribute 7,093 to a single institution. Attribute it to the community-area tag CPD published.

About 1.7 percent of the 410,083 indexed Chicago reports sit in Uptown. That arithmetic (raw count over city total) is the only extra number this page adds to the packet. It does not become a ranking unless you compute one across every official community area yourself and show the method.

1.7 percent of indexed Chicago reports

7,093 ÷ 410,083 ≈ 1.7 percent. Lincoln Park's share in this index is similar in percentage terms but is a different raw count on a different page. Keep the names straight.

No population field is present, so no rate is produced. If you add Census data later, keep it labeled as your addition.

Bookmark both URLs if you work in mixed company: reporters search the name; GIS people search the numbered path. Both resolve to the same Uptown extract of 7,093 reports. The Chicago hub remains the parent view for 410,083 citywide.

Community area 3

Uptown is community area 3. Use 3 for research joins. The numbered LocalCrimeVault path and the Uptown name path both serve the 7,093-row table.

Browse rows on the incident table. Use the Chicago hub for 410,083 citywide reports.

What the feed will not answer

It will not tell you how many reports were later unfounded unless that status is a published field you filter yourself. It will not tell you sentencing. 7,093 is the indexed incident count for Uptown as assigned in the snapshot.

Using the Uptown table next to the city hub

The neighborhood hub lists the Uptown rows behind the 7,093 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 7,093, you have left the headline on purpose; say so in the caption.

The Chicago hub is the parent file of 410,083 reports. Uptown's about-1.7 percent share only means something against that parent. Do not paste 7,093 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. 7,093 is the indexed snapshot for Uptown, not a promise that a query on data.cityofchicago.org tomorrow returns the same integer.

Journalists quoting Uptown should resist converting 7,093 into a rank or a grade. LocalCrimeVault does not rank community areas on this page. The supported pair is 7,093 neighborhood reports and 410,083 citywide reports, with Uptown at about 1.7 percent of the city file. Pair that pair with the source note: CPD incidents via Socrata, indexed here, reports not convictions.

Questions

How many crime reports are in Uptown, Chicago?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 7,093 CPD incident reports for Uptown, out of 410,083 Chicago reports. Uptown is about 1.7 percent of that city file. Edgewater and Lake View are not included. The figure counts police reports, not convictions. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Uptown's 7,093 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are Uptown crime numbers convictions?

No. 7,093 is a CPD open-data incident count. Court outcomes are not in this extract. Cite Uptown as report volume. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Uptown's 7,093 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Does the Uptown total include Edgewater?

No. Edgewater is a separate community area. Uptown's 7,093 reports are only rows CPD coded to Uptown. Summing North Side lakefront areas is a custom geography. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Uptown's 7,093 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the Uptown incident table?

The Uptown incident table holds the 7,093 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. Uptown's 7,093 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.7 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.