CTA · Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
Violent crime on CTA buses, last 12 months
663
incidents on CTA buses
On buses and at bus stops
1 per 300,000
bus rides per report (est.)
199.2M rides · Ridership published through Aug 31, 2026; Sep 1 – Nov 3, 2026 estimated.
713
same dates a year earlier
Nov 4, 2024 – Nov 3, 2025 · -50 (-7%) this year
Bus routes
Rides per report, darker = more oftenover 800,000400,000–800,000200,000–400,000100,000–200,000under 100,000Width = incidents. Grey = under 1M rides a year.
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Top routes · top 10 by incidents or rate
Top routes
| # | Name | Incidents | Per ride |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 40 | 1 per 120,000 | |
| 2 | 33 | 1 per 190,000 | |
| 3 | 25 | 1 per 200,000 | |
| 4 | 25 | 1 per 230,000 | |
| 5 | 24 | 1 per 190,000 | |
| 6 | 23 | 1 per 140,000 | |
| 7 | 23 | 1 per 260,000 | |
| 8 | 19 | 1 per 280,000 | |
| 9 | 18 | 1 per 230,000 | |
| 10 | 17 | 1 per 280,000 |
Per ride = 1 incident per X rides. Routes with 2M+ rides a year. Ridership through Aug 31, 2026, later days estimated.
Time of day · by line, rate per ride, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
Time of day by line, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
663 reports of violent crime incl. simple battery
| Line | 12–4 am | 4–8 am | 8 am–noon | noon–4 pm | 4–8 pm | 8 pm–12 am |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All CTA1,704 reports · “L” and buses | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 290,000 | 1 per 310,000 | 1 per 250,000 | 1 per 190,000 | 1 per 43,000 |
| All “L”1,041 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 130,000 | 1 per 190,000 | 1 per 160,000 | 1 per 160,000 | 1 per 21,000 |
| Red Line488 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 110,000 | 1 per 180,000 | 1 per 130,000 | 1 per 130,000 | 1 per 18,000 |
| Blue Line172 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 160,000 | 1 per 270,000 | 1 per 370,000 | 1 per 300,000 | 1 per 40,000 |
| Brown Line162 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 180,000 | 1 per 390,000 | 1 per 240,000 | 1 per 230,000 | 1 per 37,000 |
| Green Line203 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 120,000 | 1 per 170,000 | 1 per 120,000 | 1 per 100,000 | 1 per 18,000 |
| Orange Line173 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 140,000 | 1 per 180,000 | 1 per 160,000 | 1 per 140,000 | 1 per 25,000 |
| Purple Line182 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 150,000 | 1 per 330,000 | 1 per 190,000 | 1 per 210,000 | 1 per 30,000 |
| Pink Line120 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 200,000 | 1 per 330,000 | 1 per 180,000 | 1 per 160,000 | 1 per 35,000 |
| Yellow Line28 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | fewer than 30 reports in this row | fewer than 30 reports in this row | fewer than 30 reports in this row | fewer than 30 reports in this row | fewer than 30 reports in this row |
| Buses and stops663 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 880,000 | 1 per 480,000 | 1 per 350,000 | 1 per 230,000 | 1 per 91,000 |
Rides per report, darker = more dangerousover 200,000100,000–200,00050,000–100,00025,000–50,000under 25,000too few reports or not rated
Each cell: 1 report per X rides in that block, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
About these numbers
- Crime types. Violent = homicide, criminal sexual assault, robbery, aggravated assault and aggravated battery. “Include simple battery” (on by default here, unlike other pages) adds battery without a weapon or serious injury.
- Stations and lines. An “L” report counts at the nearest station within 150 m (901 of 1,041 in these dates); the rest count only in the All CTA and All “L” totals. A line or part of a line adds up its stations, so a report at a station several lines share (Clark/Lake, the Loop, Roosevelt) counts on each of them. Stations outside Chicago have no CPD data.
- Per ride. “1 per X rides” = one incident for every X station entries or bus rides (entries, not riders; a shared station's entries count for each line); X = 1,000,000 ÷ incidents per million. Ridership is published monthly (through Aug 31, 2026); later days use the latest 12 months' daily average. Stations under 500K entries a year are flagged “low ridership”.
- Buses. A bus report is shared among routes within 50 m, weighted by ridership. Route rates need 1M+ rides a year; the route table needs 2M+.
- Time of day. The first tab rates each 4-hour block per ride: CTA publishes no hourly ridership, so riders in a block are estimated as entries (or bus boardings) × that block's share of CTA trips in CMAP's My Daily Travel survey; its ⓘ note has the details. The other tabs count reports by the hour the City recorded. Unknown times are often logged at midnight or noon, which lifts those hours.