Chicago · Neighborhood crime trends

Chicago South Side

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

13 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 south side of Chicago averaged 35.5, hence it is generally less safe when all crimes are considered.

How do the 13 neighborhoods of the south side of Chicago compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 10,438 crimes across them, 35.5 for every 1,000 residents. That is 1.9% below a year earlier and 32.6% above Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

Bridgeport has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (12.9 per 1,000), followed by Hyde Park (20.5) and Armour Square (24.9). Greater Grand Crossing has the highest (53.1).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 13 CHICAGO SOUTH 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

South Side in Chicago. Chicago grew from a portage between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi watershed, first settled by Jean Baptiste Point du Sable in the 1780s. It was incorporated as a city in 1837, rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1871, and is now the third-largest city in the United States. South Side is part of Chicago, which is divided into 77 official community areas that this page uses as its neighborhoods. South Side includes Hyde Park and Bronzeville.

Notable neighborhoods in South Side include:

Hyde Park and the lakefront. Hyde Park, Kenwood, Woodlawn and Washington Park were the site of the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. The University of Chicago, founded in 1890, anchors Hyde Park. The Museum of Science and Industry occupies the only major building of the exposition that survives.

Bronzeville and the Great Migration. Douglas, Grand Boulevard and Oakland make up much of Bronzeville, which became a center of Black life and culture in Chicago as African Americans arrived in large numbers during the Great Migration of the early twentieth century. Bridgeport, Armour Square and Englewood have long been working-class neighborhoods, and Armour Square is home to Guaranteed Rate Field, home of the White Sox.

Lowest rate (everyday)

Bridgeport

12.9 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

Greater Grand Crossing

53.1 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

35.5 per 1,000

1.9% below a year earlier ·

32.6% above Q1 2022

Compared

13 neighborhoods

294,130 residents · 18 quarters

Chicago South 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

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