Mt. Lookout Crime Rate Trends — Cincinnati
Mt. Lookout is an east-side hillside neighborhood organized around Mt. Lookout Square at the intersection of Linwood and Delta avenues. Predominantly single-family residential, with Ault Park and the Lookout overlook on the eastern edge above the Little Miami valley.
April 2026 was a structurally quiet month in Mt. Lookout. The only tracked signal was a zero-event result for Homicide — a category with no recorded incidents in the current window. No spikes, drops, sustained shifts, or streak breaks registered across any other tracked category.
The 12-month property crime picture continues to move downward across most buckets: Burglary is down 80.0% against the prior 12 months (2 incidents vs. 10), Theft from Vehicle is down 30.0% (14 vs. 20), and Other Larceny is down 28.6% (5 vs. 7). Motor Vehicle Theft is the lone category moving the other direction, up 15.4% (15 vs. 13), though no single-month signal crossed the anomaly threshold this period.
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.
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
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
Other Larceny
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
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.
Theft from Vehicle
Below the volume threshold for a reliable forecast — too few incidents in recent months to project from.
How Mt. Lookout compares
Peer neighborhoods picked by closest 12-month homicide 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 homicide levels.”
Carthage
1 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 above Mt. Lookout's 0.
Open page →Downtown
1 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 above Mt. Lookout's 0.
Open page →Lower Price Hill_Queensgate
1 incidents over the past 12 months — 1 above Mt. Lookout's 0.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Mt. Lookout, 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 Cincinnati Open Data — STARS Category Offenses post-2024-06-03 plus PDI Crime Incidents back to 2020 — mapped to 8 UCR-aligned categories (vandalism and arson aren't recoverable across the STARS migration boundary). Aggregated to Statistical Neighborhood Approximation × 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.