Crime reports in Washington Heights, Chicago

Washington Heights is not Washington Park

Two official Chicago community areas use Washington in the name. This page is Washington Heights: 4,687 indexed CPD reports. Washington Park is a different South Side area with a different extract. Mixing the names is a common error in search.

Beverly, Morgan Park, and Auburn Gresham are also separate. 4,687 includes only rows CPD coded to Washington Heights.

Citywide 410,083 reports are the parent file. Washington Heights is about 1.1 percent of that file. The share is not a rate.

CPD's community-area field is a polygon join, not a neighborhood nickname. Washington Heights's 4,687 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 4,687 headline.

Sealed, restricted, and some sensitive incident types may be missing or sparse in the public file. 4,687 is therefore a lower bound on "everything CPD ever wrote down," not an upper bound on "everything that occurred." Quote it as published reports.

Far South Side extract, public-record tone

4,687 is documentation volume. It is not a conviction count. It is not a sketch of the people who live in Washington Heights.

This overlay does not list individual cases. Offense types belong on the incident table. Court results belong in court data.

About 1.1 percent of the 410,083 indexed Chicago reports sit in Washington Heights. 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.

1.1 percent of indexed Chicago reports

4,687 ÷ 410,083 ≈ 1.1 percent. Lower West Side has a similar share in this index on the other side of the city. Similar percentages do not merge geographies.

Population is not in the packet, so no per-capita figure appears.

Bookmark both URLs if you work in mixed company: reporters search the name; GIS people search the numbered path. Both resolve to the same Washington Heights extract of 4,687 reports. The Chicago hub remains the parent view for 410,083 citywide.

Community area 73

Washington Heights is community area 73. Use 73 for joins. The numbered path and the Washington Heights name path both open the 4,687-row table.

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

Disambiguation for citations

Write Washington Heights, Chicago, 4,687 indexed CPD reports, of 410,083 citywide, reports not convictions. Adding 'not Washington Park' is useful when the audience mixes the two names.

Using the Washington Heights table next to the city hub

The neighborhood hub lists the Washington Heights rows behind the 4,687 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 4,687, you have left the headline on purpose; say so in the caption.

The Chicago hub is the parent file of 410,083 reports. Washington Heights's about-1.1 percent share only means something against that parent. Do not paste 4,687 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. 4,687 is the indexed snapshot for Washington Heights, not a promise that a query on data.cityofchicago.org tomorrow returns the same integer.

Journalists quoting Washington Heights should resist converting 4,687 into a rank or a grade. LocalCrimeVault does not rank community areas on this page. The supported pair is 4,687 neighborhood reports and 410,083 citywide reports, with Washington Heights at about 1.1 percent of the city file. Pair that pair with the source note: CPD incidents via Socrata, indexed here, reports not convictions.

Repeating the claim in plain language: Washington Heights has 4,687 indexed Chicago Police incident reports in LocalCrimeVault, out of 410,083 citywide, about 1.1 percent of that published file, and those rows are reports rather than convictions. That sentence is the entire numeric claim this page is built to support.

Questions

How many crime reports are in Washington Heights, Chicago?

LocalCrimeVault indexes 4,687 CPD incident reports for Washington Heights, out of 410,083 Chicago reports. That is about 1.1 percent of the city file. Washington Park is a different community area and is not included. The figure counts police reports, not convictions.

Is Washington Heights the same as Washington Park?

No. Washington Heights has 4,687 indexed reports on this page. Washington Park is a separate official community area. Use the matching name when you cite either extract. LocalCrimeVault indexes Chicago Police Department incidents from the city open-data portal. Washington Heights's 4,687 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.1 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Are Washington Heights totals convictions?

No. 4,687 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. Washington Heights's 4,687 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.1 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.

Where is the Washington Heights incident table?

The Washington Heights incident table lists the 4,687 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. Washington Heights's 4,687 figure is a community-area report count inside the 410,083 citywide extract, about 1.1 percent of that file, and it is not a conviction tally.