Morgan Park, Chicago, IL Violent Crime Rates and Maps
Morgan Park is a neighborhood of 20,500 residents in Chicago, about 14 miles south of downtown · Updated November 2026
How common is violent crime in Morgan Park?
Violent crime is high in Morgan Park: an F, with more violent crime than the neighborhoods where 94% of Americans live. Assaults make up 92% 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 44 of 1,000More violent crime than nearly all US neighborhoodsi What this means
6% of Americans live in neighborhoods with more violent crime than Morgan Park as a whole, and 94% in neighborhoods with less. The typical US neighborhood has a violent crime safety score of 860, a CrimeGrade™ of A. Morgan Park scores 44.
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 Morgan Park, Chicago, IL at ISP Reports.
Who this page is for: homeowners and renters in Morgan 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 Morgan Park
Aggravated assaults are less common than the crime level suggests. Violent crime in Morgan Park runs at more than double the US rate, but aggravated assaults run at less than half that rate: 1.1 a year per 1,000 residents, against 2.6 nationally.
Robbery at more than triple the US rate. Morgan Park has 2.2 robberies a year per 1,000 residents, against 0.62 nationally.
How Morgan Park compares within Chicago
Violent crime changes a lot from one part of Morgan Park to the next: 44% of residents live in areas graded A or B, while 56% live in areas graded D or F. Violent crime grades across Morgan Park run from A to F.
44%56%
A or B 44%D or F 56%
Share of residents, by the violent crime CrimeGrade™ of the area they live in.
Morgan Park has less violent crime than 53 of the 135 neighborhoods in Chicago. It covers much of the Chicago Lawn, Beverly, and West Englewood areas.
Is violent crime going up in Chicago?
Reported violent crime in Chicago as a whole has fallen 45% since 2019. Murders, rapes, robberies and aggravated assaults went from about 9.5 to 5.2 a year per 1,000 residents (US: 3.7). In 2024 alone, violent crime fell 11%.
Violent crime, change since 2019
ChicagoUnited States
Source: crime reports to the FBI from the police departments that serve Chicago. The charts follow crimes per resident.
Data table
Year
Violent, Chicago
Violent, US
2016
+17%
+4%
2017
+16%
+4%
2018
+7%
+0%
2019
+0%
+0%
2020
+2%
+4%
2021
-40%
+6%
2022
-44%
+5%
2023
-38%
+2%
2024
-45%
-4%
Violent crime rates and types in Morgan Park
CrimeGrade™ estimates Morgan Park has about 35 reported violent crimes a year for every 1,000 residents, more than double the rate for the US as a whole and close to 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 Morgan Park, about 92% 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 Morgan 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
Most often at
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 Morgan Park and nearby neighborhoods
Morgan Park has less violent crime than 8 of its 10 nearest neighborhoods; only Mount Greenwood and Beverly have less.
Nearest first, with each place's distance from Morgan 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, Morgan Park has more violent crime than 88% of them.
Among the traits that tend to go with violent crime, one sets Morgan Park apart: it has 19 jobs for every 100 residents, against 45 for the US as a whole. Places like that tend to report less robbery, yet robbery runs higher here than that would suggest.
JobsJobs draw daytime crowds. Places with many jobs tend to report more robbery.19 for every 100 residentsUS: 45Lower than for 72% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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.B- (50 of 100)US: 21Higher than for 64% of residents of US city neighborhoods
Transit serviceBuses and trains an hour at the evening rush. Places with busy transit tend to report more robbery. BestNeighborhood's Transit Grade for Morgan Park: C (35 of 100).12 trips an hourUS: noneHigher than for 59% of residents of US city neighborhoods
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Tree coverThe share of land under tree canopy where people live. Leafy neighborhoods tend to report less robbery.12% where people liveUS: 21%Higher than for 59% 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 Morgan Park
Counting the pain and suffering of victims, violent crime costs Morgan Park about $63 million a year, or $3,061 per resident. The costs that reach a bill, such as medical care, lost work and the justice system, come to about $14 million, or $694 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.
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.
