Chicago Sexual assault

Chicago · Sexual assault · updated 2026-11-12

In 2025, the latest complete year, Chicago police open data recorded 3,327 sexual assault incidents, 1.4% of all 239,507 incidents reported in the city that year and up 9.2% from 2024. That is about 122 per 100,000 residents, compared with 80.9 per 100,000 across the 42 US cities on TheCrimeMaps.com with complete 2025 data that list this crime type. So far in 2026, 3,213 sexual assault incidents have been published.

Sexual assault in Chicago by year

YearIncidentsPer 100Kvs prior year
2026 (year to date)3,213——
20253,327122up 9.2%
20243,048112down 5.5%
20233,227119up 7.1%
20223,012111up 8.2%
20212,783102up 17.2%
20202,37587.3down 24.8%

Year rows reflect the months published by the source; partial years are labelled and never compared or turned into rates. Full archive: 48,543 sexual assault incidents.

Neighborhoods with the most sexual assault (2025)

  1. Near North Side 205 incidents
  2. Austin 176 incidents
  3. Near West Side 141 incidents
  4. Loop 107 incidents
  5. Lake View 99 incidents
  6. South Shore 89 incidents
  7. Uptown 89 incidents
  8. West Town 87 incidents

Neighborhood names as published by the police feed; counts are not adjusted for population.

Questions

How many sexual assault incidents were reported in Chicago in 2025?

3,327, according to Chicago Police Department open data as mapped by TheCrimeMaps.com.

Is sexual assault going up or down in Chicago?

Reported sexual assault was up 9.2% in 2025 compared with 2024, and up 10.5% compared with 2022 (rising over three years).

Where does this data come from?

Source: Chicago Police Department open data. TheCrimeMaps.com groups each published offense into a crime type; counts are police-reported incidents, not convictions, and some reports are reclassified or removed by the source later.

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