CTA · Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
Theft on CTA buses, last 12 months
206
incidents on CTA buses
On buses and at bus stops
1 per 970,000
bus rides per report (est.)
199.2M rides · Ridership published through Aug 31, 2026; Sep 1 – Nov 3, 2026 estimated.
233
same dates a year earlier
Nov 4, 2024 – Nov 3, 2025 · -27 (-12%) this year
Bus routes
Rides per report, darker = more oftenover 2,000,0001,000,000–2,000,000500,000–1,000,000250,000–500,000under 250,000Width = 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 | 9 | 1 per 600,000 | |
| 2 | 9 | 1 per 590,000 | |
| 3 | 8 | 1 per 550,000 | |
| 4 | 7 | 1 per 660,000 | |
| 5 | 7 | 1 per 660,000 | |
| 6 | 7 | 1 per 540,000 | |
| 7 | 7 | 1 per 740,000 | |
| 8 | 6 | 1 per 790,000 | |
| 9 | 6 | 1 per 1,100,000 | |
| 10 | 5 | 1 per 520,000 |
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
206 reports of theft
| Line | 12–4 am | 4–8 am | 8 am–noon | noon–4 pm | 4–8 pm | 8 pm–12 am |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All CTA547 reports · “L” and buses | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 760,000 | 1 per 910,000 | 1 per 800,000 | 1 per 650,000 | 1 per 170,000 |
| All “L”341 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 360,000 | 1 per 560,000 | 1 per 500,000 | 1 per 470,000 | 1 per 90,000 |
| Red Line144 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 290,000 | 1 per 690,000 | 1 per 590,000 | 1 per 400,000 | 1 per 100,000 |
| Blue Line79 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 420,000 | 1 per 580,000 | 1 per 420,000 | fewer than 10 reports | 1 per 100,000 |
| Brown Line45 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | 1 per 600,000 | 1 per 710,000 | fewer than 10 reports |
| Green Line57 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | 1 per 350,000 | 1 per 330,000 | fewer than 10 reports |
| Orange Line46 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | 1 per 500,000 | 1 per 420,000 | fewer than 10 reports |
| Purple Line53 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | 1 per 460,000 | 1 per 510,000 | fewer than 10 reports |
| Pink Line32 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports |
| Yellow Line9 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 stops206 reports | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 2,000,000 | 1 per 1,300,000 | 1 per 1,100,000 | 1 per 890,000 | 1 per 310,000 |
Rides per report, darker = more dangerousover 800,000400,000–800,000200,000–400,000100,000–200,000under 100,000too 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 (281 of 341 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.