Code violations & blight pressure, community area by community area

Which community areas carry the most building-code enforcement? Search your address to see how your area compares — or click any area on the map.

Full ranking — all 77 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	building-code violations per 1,000 parcels
1	South Shore	234
2	Washington Park	207
3	West Garfield Park	181
4	Greater Grand Crossing	176
5	Chatham	153
6	Woodlawn	146
7	North Lawndale	130
8	Grand Boulevard	128
9	Auburn Gresham	121
10	South Chicago	110
11	East Garfield Park	99.2
12	Hyde Park	96.1
13	Kenwood	95.0
14	Riverdale	80.4
15	Englewood	78.2
16	South Lawndale	77.8
17	Austin	77.5
18	West Englewood	75.9
19	Chicago Lawn	73.3
20	Lower West Side	68.8
21	Pullman	66.8
22	Roseland	65.9
23	Fuller Park	64.3
24	Hermosa	63.5
25	Avalon Park	62.3
26	Humboldt Park	58.9
27	Gage Park	54.5
28	Calumet Heights	54.2
29	Brighton Park	52.9
30	New City	52.5
31	Douglas	50.7
32	Burnside	50.0
33	Washington Heights	47.9
34	Archer Heights	46.1
35	Rogers Park	45.4
36	Bridgeport	45.0
37	Logan Square	44.5
38	West Pullman	44.0
39	McKinley Park	43.6
40	Belmont Cragin	42.9
41	Avondale	42.5
42	Oakland	41.0
43	Armour Square	39.4
44	West Ridge	37.6
45	South Deering	37.6
46	Irving Park	35.0
47	Loop	34.1
48	Albany Park	33.6
49	West Town	33.6
50	Portage Park	33.5
51	East Side	33.0
52	Uptown	31.3
53	Lincoln Square	31.2
54	Morgan Park	30.8
55	Near West Side	30.8
56	Beverly	30.4
57	West Lawn	29.0
58	Hegewisch	28.6
59	Edgewater	26.4
60	West Elsdon	26.2
61	Clearing	25.4
62	Montclare	25.4
63	Ashburn	24.9
64	Near North Side	22.3
65	Lake View	22.3
66	Mount Greenwood	19.6
67	O'Hare	19.2
68	Garfield Ridge	17.6
69	North Center	16.4
70	Dunning	16.1
71	Near South Side	15.8
72	North Park	14.4
73	Lincoln Park	14.3
74	Edison Park	12.2
75	Norwood Park	11.6
76	Jefferson Park	9.9
77	Forest Glen	8.1

How to read this map

Violations per 1,000 parcels normalizes for size. Switch the category to building & habitability for the structural/interior-maintenance violations that most read as blight; the drawer breaks every area down by category.

Open-violation share is the fraction of a community area’s violations still OPEN (not yet brought into compliance) — a persistence signal a raw count can’t show. It is computed over all violations; the drawer discloses “NO ENTRY” cases (the inspector couldn’t access the property) separately rather than counting them as open or closed.

Source: City of Chicago building violations (open data), trailing 365 days. See methodology for the window and suppression details. Community areas with too few violations show as “insufficient data.”

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GuideChicago building code violations: look up any address