Data through September 2026, Chicago Police Department

Crime in Douglas, Chicago

The violent crime rate in Douglas is 3,632 per 100,000 residents per year, 46% above Chicago as a whole (2,494). It ranks 23 of 75 community areas, where 1 is the highest rate.

Aerial photo of the Douglas community area in Chicago, with its boundary outlined.
Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP 2019, public domain

The numbers

12 months to Sep 2026

Violent crime

3,632 per 100,000 residents, per year

766 reported in the last 12 months

+46% vs. Chicago (2,494)

Property crime

7,307 per 100,000 residents, per year

1,541 reported in the last 12 months

+85% vs. Chicago (3,944)

All reported

11,333 per 100,000 residents, per year

2,390 reported in the last 12 months

+65% vs. Chicago (6,855)

Rates use the 2020 Census population of 21,088 for Douglas. Small areas swing more month to month, so all rates here use a 12-month window ending September 2026.

Where Douglas sits in Chicago, and where incidents concentrate

rank 23 of 75
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1the block with the most violent incidents10the tenthCounted over the last 12 months. Point at a mark, or at a row in the table below, to see which street it is.

SaferHigher rateNot rated: park or fewer than 2,500 residentsArea shading: violent crimes per 100,000 residents per year, so you can see how this neighbourhood compares with the ones around it.

Douglas is in the middle of the city’s range: rank 23 of 75. Nearby in the ranking: Avalon Park (3,934), Near West Side (3,706), Oakland (3,532), New City (3,370).

Blocks with the most violent incidents

12 months to Sep 2026
BlockViolentPropertyShare of area’s violent
01035XX S Rhodes Ave54357%
02036XX S Rhodes Ave36345%
03002XX E 35th St3074%
04026XX S Calumet Ave25153%
05032XX S Calumet Ave2443%
06034XX S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr20313%
07029XX S State St20143%
08030XX S Dr Martin Luther King Jr Dr19492%
09027XX S Dearborn St19162%
10004XX E 34th St15132%

“Block” is the hundred-block as the police department publishes it (for example 51XX W Madison St), never an exact address. Only blocks with 5 or more violent incidents in the window are listed; the top 10 account for 34% of Douglas’s violent incidents. These are the numbered marks on the map above; hover a row to find it.

Violent crime, month by month

Oct 2025 to Sep 2026
Violent crimes in Douglas by month
MonthViolent crimes in Douglas
Oct 202565
Nov 202563
Dec 202558
Jan 202659
Feb 202656
Mar 202667
Apr 202654
May 202683
Jun 202649
Jul 202654
Aug 202674
Sep 202684

When crime happens in Douglas

12 months to Sep 2026

In the last 12 months, half of the violent crime reported in Douglas happened between 9 am and 7 pm. No day of the week stood out.

Violent crime busiest hour 4 pm

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Property crime busiest hour 10 pm

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Each line is an average day of that kind, as a multiple of the average hour of the week (dashed line), smoothed over three hours. Days run from 6 am to 6 am, so a Friday night stays on Friday. Times are when the incident happened, as recorded by Chicago Police Department; 2% of incidents have no usable time (many unknown times are recorded as midnight or noon) and are left out.

See the numbers by hour
Violent crime in Douglas by hour, last 12 months
HourFriday and SaturdaySunday to ThursdayAll days
6 am61925
7 am51722
8 am112334
9 am112738
10 am62935
11 am83947
12 pm93544
1 pm102131
2 pm113647
3 pm113748
4 pm144155
5 pm101727
6 pm83038
7 pm62430
8 pm81725
9 pm132740
10 pm42226
11 pm152439
12 am111425
1 am91221
2 am31316
3 am11920
4 am4610
5 am51217
Total with a known time209551760
Property crime in Douglas by hour, last 12 months
HourFriday and SaturdaySunday to ThursdayAll days
6 am152641
7 am93140
8 am254267
9 am134154
10 am194261
11 am184058
12 pm174865
1 pm184260
2 pm225476
3 pm145064
4 pm294675
5 pm185270
6 pm246286
7 pm225981
8 pm215576
9 pm304878
10 pm236689
11 pm185674
12 am174562
1 am183654
2 am165066
3 am132841
4 am92433
5 am61824
Total with a known time4341,0611,495

Reported crime by type

last 12 months
OffenseReportedPer 100k, per yearvs. Chicago
Assault and batteryViolent7123,376+47%
RobberyTaking property by force or threatViolent49232+32%
HomicideViolent524+52%
TheftShoplifting, pickpocketing and other theft without force or entryProperty4922,333+42%
Property damage and arsonProperty4201,992+112%
Vehicle theftProperty3671,740+161%
Theft from vehiclesItems or parts taken from a vehicle, break-ins includedProperty2161,024+110%
BurglaryEntering a home or business to stealProperty46218+3%
Weapons offensesOther50237+32%
Drug offensesOther33156−34%

Source and dates

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Source
Chicago Police Department, via City of Chicago Data Portal (dataset ijzp-q8t2), aggregated by community area
Window
October 2025 to September 2026 (12 months)
Population
21,088 residents, 2020 Census
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Crime in Chicago, IL
All community areas
Chicago neighborhoods by reported crime rate