Development pulse, community area by community area

Where is construction money flowing in Chicago? Search your address to see how your community area compares — or click any area on the map.

Full ranking — all 77 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	permits per 1,000 parcels
1	Loop	95.8
2	O'Hare	90.4
3	Hyde Park	54.9
4	Woodlawn	54.6
5	Pullman	54.2
6	Lower West Side	49.2
7	Avalon Park	45.3
8	North Lawndale	45.2
9	Near West Side	44.3
10	North Center	42.8
11	Lincoln Square	42.5
12	Grand Boulevard	41.6
13	Logan Square	41.6
14	Humboldt Park	41.1
15	Auburn Gresham	40.3
16	Kenwood	40.3
17	Austin	40.0
18	Washington Park	39.7
19	West Town	39.5
20	West Garfield Park	38.8
21	East Garfield Park	38.7
22	South Shore	38.7
23	Washington Heights	38.3
24	Near North Side	38.2
25	Greater Grand Crossing	37.2
26	Chatham	36.9
27	Lincoln Park	36.9
28	Irving Park	36.0
29	South Lawndale	34.4
30	Portage Park	34.1
31	Montclare	32.8
32	Morgan Park	32.8
33	Avondale	32.6
34	McKinley Park	32.6
35	Lake View	32.4
36	Albany Park	32.3
37	Beverly	32.2
38	Forest Glen	32.0
39	Calumet Heights	32.0
40	Ashburn	31.9
41	South Chicago	31.7
42	Garfield Ridge	30.9
43	New City	30.8
44	Riverdale	30.5
45	Burnside	30.4
46	North Park	30.2
47	Archer Heights	30.2
48	Roseland	30.1
49	Englewood	30.1
50	West Pullman	29.7
51	West Englewood	29.6
52	Douglas	28.7
53	Hermosa	28.6
54	Chicago Lawn	27.9
55	Edgewater	27.9
56	Jefferson Park	27.8
57	Fuller Park	27.7
58	Bridgeport	27.6
59	Oakland	26.8
60	Uptown	26.3
61	Norwood Park	26.0
62	Rogers Park	25.6
63	Brighton Park	25.1
64	West Lawn	24.5
65	West Ridge	24.0
66	Gage Park	23.7
67	Belmont Cragin	23.5
68	Hegewisch	22.4
69	Mount Greenwood	22.2
70	Edison Park	21.4
71	South Deering	19.8
72	East Side	19.7
73	Clearing	18.3
74	Dunning	18.2
75	West Elsdon	17.5
76	Near South Side	16.8
77	Armour Square	15.7

How to read this map

Permits per 1,000 parcels normalizes for size, so a big community area doesn’t top the map just for being big. Switch the scope to new construction or renovations to see where each kind of work concentrates.

Investment (median $) is the median applicant-reported construction cost per permit — the dollars-of-construction story a permit count can’t tell. Permits with no reported cost are excluded from the median; the drawer shows how many carried one.

Source: City of Chicago building permits (open data), trailing 365 days. Each permit is placed in its community area and ward by the City’s own recorded assignment. See methodology for freshness and suppression details. Community areas with too few permits show as “insufficient data.”