North Center Crime Rate Trends — Chicago
North Center is a North Side neighborhood organized around Lincoln, Damen, and Irving Park Roads. Anchored by the historic St. Benedict parish, the North Center commercial strip, and the CTA Brown Line's Irving Park and Addison stations.
March 2026 produced no tracked signals in North Center — zero categories crossed any anomaly threshold this month. The 12-month totals still show meaningful structural movement in several categories, but none rose to the level of a signal in the current period.
Robbery is down 44.8% against the prior 12 months (16 incidents vs. 29), and burglary is down 27.5% (66 vs. 91). Motor vehicle theft is off 25.6% (93 vs. 125). Moving the other direction, aggravated assault is up 22.2% (33 vs. 27) and vandalism is up 17.5% (188 vs. 160) on a 12-month basis — both elevated relative to the prior year, but not enough to register as signals within the current month's window.
Notable signals 0
Nothing notable surfaced this month — every category sits within normal range against its baseline.
All categories, last 24 months
Each panel: recent monthly count vs. trailing 12-month context. MoM is the most recent month vs. the one before; 12mo YoY compares the trailing year to the year before that.
What's been quietly true for a year
Spikes get attention. Sustained shifts shape policy. These are multi-quarter patterns where the past 12-month total differs meaningfully from the year before — they often precede the baseline resetting.
No sustained shifts surfaced this month.
What next month likely looks like
Forecasts trained through March 2026, with a likely range we're 95% confident the actual count will fall inside. Categories with too little recent volume — or violent categories at the neighborhood level — show no forecast and are surfaced through signals above instead. See the methodology page for the gating rules.
Aggravated Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Arson
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
Burglary
Homicide
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Motor Vehicle Theft
Other Larceny
Robbery
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Sexual Assault
Too low-volume per neighborhood for a reliable point forecast — see the rare-event and streak-break signals above instead.
Vandalism
How North Center compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month other larceny volume — a pragmatic v1 of peer matching. Demographic / housing-stock peer matching isn't built yet (we deliberately don't ingest income or race data alongside crime). Volume similarity has the right intuition: “neighborhoods experiencing comparable other larceny levels.”
Brighton Park
423 incidents over the past 12 months — 8 above North Center's 415.
Open page →Morgan Park
428 incidents over the past 12 months — 13 above North Center's 415.
Open page →Bridgeport
442 incidents over the past 12 months — 27 above North Center's 415.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for North Center, excluding generic crime taxonomy. Useful as texture — what kinds of specifics show up here that don't show up elsewhere.
Hour-of-day, day-of-week, and seasonality
Distribution of bucketed incidents in this neighborhood across the full analysis window. Useful for routine context — shopping-strip thefts vs. late-night assaults read very differently when you can see when each typically happens.
How we built this page
Data → Anomalies → Forecast → Page
Incident data is pulled from SFPD's open dataset, mapped to 10 NIBRS-aligned categories, and aggregated to neighborhood × category × month. Anomalies are surfaced using strict thresholds (~p < 0.01). Forecasts are Prophet with low-count gating; violent categories at the neighborhood level skip the forecast and show rare-event / streak signals instead.
Spike rule: 12-mo total > baseline mean + 2.5σ AND ≥ 20 incidents AND 6-mo confirms. Drop rule: 12-mo total < baseline mean − 2.5σ AND baseline mean ≥ 20. Rare event: any incident in the last 90 days, no prior comparable in ≥ 5 years.