Chicago · Neighborhood crime trends

Chicago Northwest Side

Name: Crimes per 1,000 residents by neighborhood, Northwest Side, Q1 2022 to Q2 2026
Creator: CrimesLog

6 neighborhoods - a quarterly race to the lowest crime rate.

Crime Trends: Neighborhoods compared - each quarter from Q1 2022

Chicago as a whole averaged 22.3 crimes for every 1,000 residents per quarter in Q2 2026, while the northwest side of Chicago averaged 12.2, hence it is generally safer when all crimes are considered.

How do the 6 neighborhoods of the northwest side of Chicago compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 3,249 crimes across them, 12.2 for every 1,000 residents. That is 7.5% above a year earlier and 21.2% above Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

Dunning has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (8.1 per 1,000), followed by Montclare (9.4) and Irving Park (11.1). Belmont Cragin has the highest (15.5).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 6 CHICAGO NORTHWEST SIDE NEIGHBORHOODs race across 18 quarter periods from Q1 2022 to Q2 2026 - one crime category at a time or all together. The race chart can be used to compare average crime rates by category against Chicago's average.

Neighborhood boundaries are defined by City of Chicago, community areas (Chicago Data Portal).

A little history

Northwest Side in Chicago. Chicago, incorporated as a city in 1837, is today the third-largest city in the United States and is divided into 77 official community areas. Northwest Side includes Belmont Cragin, Portage Park, Dunning, Irving Park, Hermosa and Montclare, which grew mostly in the early twentieth century as the city spread outward along streetcar and railway lines. Much of its housing is the compact brick Chicago bungalow, built in large numbers from about 1910 to 1930.

Notable neighborhoods in Northwest Side include:

Irving Park and Portage Park. Irving Park, named for the writer Washington Irving, was a suburb of Chicago before it was annexed in 1889. Portage Park takes its name from the portage used by Native Americans and fur traders between the Des Plaines and Chicago rivers, and holds a large city park of the same name.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Dunning

8.1 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

Belmont Cragin

15.5 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

12.2 per 1,000

7.5% above a year earlier ·

21.2% above Q1 2022

Compared

6 neighborhoods

266,540 residents · 18 quarters

Chicago Northwest Side neighborhood quarterly crime race

Press ▶︎ to watch Q1 2022 to Q2 2026. Tick one crime category or several; hover a bar for the neighborhood. Property crimes includes burglaries and thefts.

Crime categories

Houses with Porches Over the Stairs, Irving Park

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Read Dunning Memorial Park Stone Marker, Dunning — **Dunning** · Read Dunning Memorial Park Stone Marker
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Metra at Mont Clare, Montclare — **Montclare** · Metra at Mont Clare
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Forest Park Train Enters Addison Station, Irving Park — **Irving Park** · Forest Park Train Enters Addison Station
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Chicago Trolleybus 9680 on Belmont in 1968, Portage Park — **Portage Park** · Chicago Trolleybus 9680 on Belmont in 1968
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Belden & Kenneth Avenues, Hermosa — **Hermosa** · Belden & Kenneth Avenues
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Saint Patrick High School, Chicago, Belmont Cragin — **Belmont Cragin** · Saint Patrick High School, Chicago
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Read Dunning Memorial Park Entrance, Dunning — **Dunning** · Read Dunning Memorial Park Entrance
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