Ohare Crime Rate Trends — Chicago
O'Hare is a far Northwest community area centered on O'Hare International Airport, one of the busiest airports in the world. Includes the airport grounds and small residential pockets along Higgins Road and Mannheim Road; bordered by Rosemont and Park Ridge.
August 2026 produced a single structural signal in Ohare: motor vehicle theft has shifted downward over the trailing 12 months in a way that goes beyond a quiet stretch. With only one category crossing the anomaly threshold, the month is otherwise within range across property and violent crime.
Motor vehicle theft is down 38.0% against the prior 12 months, 57 incidents versus 92 the year before. That sustained-shift classification means the decline has held across multiple months, not just August. Vandalism and other larceny are also lower year-over-year, down 24.3% and 14.2% respectively, though neither crossed into anomaly territory this month. Aggravated assault fell 27.8% over the same 12-month window, from 36 to 26 incidents, continuing a broader downward trend in violent crime for the neighborhood.
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.
- Motor Vehicle Theft has reset to a lower baseline.
The trailing 12-month count is 57, down 38% from 92 the year before. If the trend holds another quarter, it will pull the multi-year baseline down.
What next month likely looks like
Forecasts trained through August 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
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
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 Ohare compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month motor vehicle theft 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 motor vehicle theft levels.”
Norwood Park
58 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 above Ohare's 57.
Open page →Riverdale
59 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 above Ohare's 57.
Open page →Jefferson Park
51 incidents over the past 12 months — 6 below Ohare's 57.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Ohare, 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 CPD's open dataset on the City of Chicago Open Data portal — IUCR-coded and mapped to 9 UCR-aligned categories (theft from vehicle isn't reliably separable in the public feed and rolls into other larceny). Aggregated to community area × 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.