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.
March 2026 was a quiet month in West Ridge. No tracked category crossed an anomaly threshold — zero signals across all flag types — making this one of the calmer months in recent data.
The 12-month picture is more mixed. Robbery is down 25.8% against the prior year (66 incidents vs 89), motor vehicle theft is down 24.0% (237 vs 312), and sexual assault is down 22.6% (41 vs 53) — a broad retreat across several serious categories. Moving in the other direction: burglary is up 16.3% (107 vs 92) and aggravated assault is up 9.0% (145 vs 133). Everything else — other larceny and vandalism — ran below prior-year levels but within a quieter 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 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 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
750 incidents over the past 12 months — 9 above West Ridge's 741.
Open page →Lincoln Square
757 incidents over the past 12 months — 16 above West Ridge's 741.
Open page →North Lawndale
757 incidents over the past 12 months — 16 above West Ridge's 741.
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 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.