Chicago · Neighborhood crime trends

Chicago West Side

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

9 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 west side of Chicago averaged 30.6, hence it is generally less safe when all crimes are considered.

How do the 9 neighborhoods of the west side of Chicago compare? In Q2 2026 the police recorded 14,796 crimes across them, 30.6 for every 1,000 residents. That is 2.5% above a year earlier and 29.7% above Q1 2022, the first quarter we track.

South Lawndale has the lowest rate of the everyday neighborhoods (13.1 per 1,000), followed by Lower West Side (21.8) and West Town (23.2). West Garfield Park has the highest (60.4).

Use the RACE CHARTS below to watch all 9 CHICAGO WEST 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

West Side in Chicago. Chicago grew from a portage between Lake Michigan and the Mississippi watershed, was incorporated as a city in 1837, was rebuilt after the Great Fire of 1871, and is today the third-largest city in the United States. West Side is part of Chicago, which is divided into 77 official community areas that this page uses as its neighborhoods. West Side includes areas such as Near West Side, Humboldt Park, West Town, North Lawndale and Austin.

Notable neighborhoods in West Side include:

Near West Side. The Near West Side held Hull House, the settlement house founded by Jane Addams in 1889, and Maxwell Street, a long-running open-air market. The University of Illinois Chicago opened its campus there in 1965, and the United Center now stands near the Illinois Medical District.

Humboldt Park to Austin. Humboldt Park, named for the German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, is the center of Chicago's Puerto Rican community. West Town, North Lawndale and the Garfield Parks grew with waves of immigrant and then Black families, and Austin, annexed to Chicago in 1899, is the largest community area on the West Side.

Lowest rate (everyday)

South Lawndale

13.1 crimes per 1,000 residents, Q2 2026

Highest rate

West Garfield Park

60.4 per 1,000, Q2 2026

Whole area, Q2 2026

30.6 per 1,000

2.5% above a year earlier ·

29.7% above Q1 2022

Compared

9 neighborhoods

483,034 residents · 18 quarters

Chicago West 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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