Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Lincoln Park is a neighborhood of 59,400 residents in Chicago, about 3 miles north of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Lincoln Park?
Violent crime in Lincoln Park sits near the national middle: an A-, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 55% of Americans live. Assaults make up 83% of it, and most of those are simple assaults, which involve no weapon and no serious injury. Chicago as a whole grades D- for violent crime.
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Violent crime CrimeGrade™
Safety score 838 of 1,000About as much violent crime as the typical US neighborhoodi What this means
45% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Lincoln Park as a whole, and 55% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Lincoln Park scores 838.
Crime is concentrated in a small share of places, so most neighborhoods score high on the 0 to 1,000 scale. That is why a score in the 800s can still mean more violent crime than most US neighborhoods.
How to read the map: each area's color compares its violent crime with the people who spend time there, on one national scale, from green for the least to red for the most. Each area gets its own color, so a busy downtown or nightlife strip can show red while the homes around it stay green. The interactive maps load faster on a solid connection. Compare high speed internet in Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Lincoln Park in Chicago, and anyone thinking about buying or renting a home there.
Business and enterprise customers: this free map shows neighborhood areas. CrimeGrade™ business reports map crime at about 66-meter detail and estimate it for one address and type of business. See business reports
What stands out about violent crime in Lincoln Park
Aggravated assault is a strength. Lincoln Park grades A- for violent crime, but aggravated assault grades A+, better than in the neighborhoods where 92% of Americans live.
Robbery at about triple the US rate. Lincoln Park has 1.8 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Lincoln Park compares within Chicago
Every part of Lincoln Park where people live grades A or B for violent crime on the national scale. Violent crime grades across Lincoln Park run from A+ to B.
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Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Lincoln Park has less violent crime than 123 of the 135 neighborhoods in Chicago. It covers much of the Lake View, Lincoln Park, and Edgewater areas.
Violent crime rates and types in Lincoln Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Lincoln Park has about 13 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, 5% less than the US as a whole and 63% less than Chicago as a whole.
All violent crime
Assaults
Robbery
Reported crimes a year, per 1,000 residents. Violent crime here includes simple assaults, which the FBI's violent crime rate leaves out.
Assault is the most common violent crime in Lincoln Park, about 83% of the total.
Each CrimeGrade™ here compares a violent crime with the people who spend time in an area, not only the people who live there. Rates count crimes per 1,000 residents.
Select a crime's name to see its map above. CrimeGrade™ business reports map each crime at about 66-meter detail.
Where and when violent crime happens in Chicago
The Chicago Police Department polices Lincoln Park; these figures cover Chicago as a whole, 2022 to 2024.
In Chicago as a whole, 32% of aggravated assaults happen at a home, against 53% nationally. Robberies happen most often on streets and sidewalks: 65% of them.
Crime
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Busiest time
Robbery
Streets and sidewalks (65%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Aggravated assault
Streets and sidewalks (51%)
Evening (6 pm to midnight)
Shares of the crimes reported to police, 2022 to 2024. Reports with no time recorded are left out of the times.
Violent crime in Lincoln Park and nearby neighborhoods
Lincoln Park has less violent crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Roscoe Village and Hamlin Park have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Lincoln Park. Beside each violent crime CrimeGrade™ is its safety score, from 0 to 1,000 (higher is safer).
Compared with neighborhoods of similar size and density, Lincoln Park is safer than 85% of them.
Walkability, nightlife and density in Lincoln Park
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, two set Lincoln Park apart: it has a Walk Grade of A+ (93 of 100) on BestNeighborhood, against 21 for the US as a whole, and 2.2 bars and nightlife spots for every 1,000 residents, against 0.6 nationally. It also combines many bars with dense blocks: places with both tend to report more assault and robbery than places with only one of them, and robbery runs high here.
Walk GradeBestNeighborhood's grade for getting through daily life on foot, traced along real walking routes to shops, schools and parks. Walkable places tend to report more assault. 99% of residents here live in walkable areas.A+ (93 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 96% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Bars and nightlifeBars, lounges, clubs and casinos. Places with more bars tend to report more assault and robbery.2.2 per 1,000 residentsUS: 0.6Higher than for 93% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Residents in dense blocksBlocks of 10,000 or more people per square mile. Dense neighborhoods tend to report more robbery.98% of residentsUS: 24%Higher than for 87% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Lincoln Park: C+ (48 of 100).50 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 87% of residents of US city neighborhoods
These traits tend to go with more or less crime; none of them causes it on its own. Sources: Census job counts and housing figures, OpenStreetMap and Overture business listings, CrimeGrade™ parking estimates, NASA night-light imagery, US Forest Service tree cover, EPA transit data and BestNeighborhood's Walk Grade.
What violent crime costs Lincoln Park
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Lincoln Park about $31 million a year, or $525 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $11 million, or $184 per resident.
Billed cost of violent crime per resident, per year
How CrimeGrade™ works
The violent crime CrimeGrade™ covers murder, rape, robbery and assault, from A+ for the least crime to F for the most, on one scale for the whole country.
It weighs each violent crime against the people who spend time in an area, so a busy downtown is graded on its workers and visitors as well as its residents.
The rates on this page count crimes for every 1,000 people who live here, the way police departments report them. Lincoln Park is a good example: many people work in, shop in or visit it, so its crime per resident looks worse than its CrimeGrade™ suggests.
Comparisons with US neighborhoods use the Census Bureau's block groups, small areas of about 1,400 residents, and count the people who live in each. The figures count crimes reported to police; many crimes, shoplifting above all, never are. Behind the grades, CrimeGrade™ tested 21,607 factors from 125 data families. For business owners, paid CrimeGrade™ location reports estimate crime at a single address for each type of business.
Where the numbers come from
Crime reports that police departments file with the FBI
State crime records and city crime data, where they are published
These are estimates of reported crime for whole areas, not a record of what happened on any one street. CrimeGrade™ updates them once a year and provides them free and without guarantee. Check local sources before you rely on them for a decision.
