Northside Crime Rate Trends — Cincinnati
Northside is a West Side neighborhood along Hamilton Avenue and Spring Grove Avenue, between Camp Washington and College Hill. Anchored by the Hamilton Avenue commercial district at Northside Plaza and the long-running Northside business strip.
August 2026 was a quiet month for Northside. No tracked category crossed an anomaly threshold, and the signal count came to zero across all types. The month's story is in the 12-month cumulative picture rather than any single move.
Theft from vehicle is the sharpest mover over the trailing year, 95 incidents against 69 in the prior 12 months, a 37.7% increase. Motor vehicle theft ran in the opposite direction, 62 incidents against 75, down 17.3% over the same period. Aggravated assault edged 9.5% above the prior year on small absolute counts, 23 vs. 21, while robbery, other larceny, and burglary all held close to flat. Every other category was within normal range for the month.
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 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.
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.
Theft from Vehicle
How Northside 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.”
Winton Hills
84 incidents over the past 12 months — 2 above Northside's 82.
Open page →Clifton
90 incidents over the past 12 months — 8 above Northside's 82.
Open page →Lower Price Hill_Queensgate
69 incidents over the past 12 months — 13 below Northside's 82.
Open page →Recurring local terms (last 12 months)
Top terms in incident descriptions for Northside, 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.