Vacant & abandoned buildings

Where do residents report vacant and abandoned buildings? This maps 311 vacant-building complaints over the trailing year, per 1,000 parcels — a current read on building-level blight. The concentration is unmistakable and long-standing: the far South Side, from West Pullman and Roseland through Englewood, carries several times the citywide rate. Search your address or click any community area.

Full ranking — all 77 neighborhoods

Rank	Neighborhood	vacant-building complaints per 1,000 parcels
1	West Pullman	25.3
2	Chatham	24.8
3	West Englewood	24.1
4	Englewood	23.6
5	Greater Grand Crossing	22.9
6	Burnside	20.5
7	Roseland	20.0
8	South Chicago	20.0
9	Riverdale	16.9
10	Washington Heights	16.4
11	South Shore	16.3
12	West Garfield Park	14.9
13	Pullman	14.7
14	Fuller Park	14.3
15	Auburn Gresham	14.3
16	Avalon Park	14.2
17	Woodlawn	13.5
18	Chicago Lawn	12.2
19	New City	12.2
20	Austin	12.1
21	Calumet Heights	11.6
22	North Lawndale	11.4
23	Montclare	11.1
24	Humboldt Park	10.3
25	Brighton Park	9.5
26	East Garfield Park	8.6
27	Washington Park	8.6
28	Lower West Side	7.0
29	South Deering	6.3
30	South Lawndale	6.0
31	Morgan Park	5.9
32	Grand Boulevard	5.7
33	Dunning	5.7
34	Portage Park	4.7
35	Albany Park	3.9
36	Archer Heights	3.9
37	East Side	3.5
38	McKinley Park	3.5
39	Hegewisch	3.5
40	Norwood Park	3.3
41	Beverly	3.2
42	Gage Park	3.1
43	Belmont Cragin	3.0
44	Bridgeport	2.9
45	Avondale	2.9
46	Logan Square	2.8
47	Ashburn	2.8
48	Lincoln Square	2.7
49	Hyde Park	2.7
50	West Elsdon	2.6
51	Armour Square	2.3
52	Oakland	2.3
53	North Center	2.1
54	West Town	2.1
55	Hermosa	2.1
56	Jefferson Park	2.0
57	West Lawn	2.0
58	Mount Greenwood	1.9
59	Garfield Ridge	1.8
60	West Ridge	1.8
61	Irving Park	1.8
62	Rogers Park	1.7
63	North Park	1.6
64	Kenwood	1.5
65	Edison Park	1.5
66	Uptown	1.4
67	Near West Side	1.2
68	Clearing	1.1
69	Douglas	1.0
70	Forest Glen	0.9
71	Lincoln Park	0.9
72	Lake View	0.9
73	Edgewater	0.7
74	Near North Side	0.6
75	Loop	0.6
76	Near South Side	0.5
77	O'Hare	0.0

How to read this map

Each value is the number of 311 vacant/abandoned-building complaints placed in a community area over the trailing window, divided by its parcels and scaled to 1,000. The ramp is warmand higher is worse — a dense cluster of complaints is a blight-and-disinvestment signal, not a neutral magnitude. Complaints are assigned by the City’s own community-area field on each request.

A note on sources. The City also publishes a vacant-buildings violations dataset, but it is effectively a historical archive — its enforcement activity peaked in 2011–2017, the wave of the foreclosure crisis, and it has recorded only a handful of cases since. To avoid implying that decade-old enforcement is current, this map uses the live 311 complaint stream instead; the historical violations remain a matter of record but are not shown here.

Source: City of Chicago 311 service requests. See methodology for the window and the historical-violations note.

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