West Ridge Crime Rate Trends — Chicago
West Ridge — also known as West Rogers Park — is a Far North Side neighborhood organized around the Devon Avenue commercial corridor between Western Avenue and California Avenue. Predominantly two- and three-flat housing, bordered by Evanston to the north and Rogers Park to the east.
April 2026 produced no tracked signals in West Ridge — zero categories crossed any anomaly threshold this month. The absence of movement is itself informative: across a neighborhood with meaningful 12-month volume in every tracked category, nothing moved far enough from trend to register.
The 12-month picture shows the most notable structural divergence between burglary, up 22.5% against the prior year (109 incidents vs. 89), and sexual assault, down 25.5% (38 vs. 51). Motor vehicle theft is also running lower — 235 incidents against 293 a year prior, a 19.8% decline. Everything else, including other larceny at 739 incidents and vandalism essentially flat at 368 vs. 369, stayed within its prior-year range.
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 April 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 West Ridge 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.”
Douglas
745 incidents over the past 12 months — 6 above West Ridge's 739.
Open page →Gage Park
746 incidents over the past 12 months — 7 above West Ridge's 739.
Open page →North Lawndale
762 incidents over the past 12 months — 23 above West Ridge's 739.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for West Ridge, 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.