CTA · Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
Violent crime on the Purple Line, last 12 months
182
incidents on the Purple Line
At 26 stations
1 per 150,000
entries (rides) per report (est.)
27.3M entries · Ridership published through Aug 31, 2026; Sep 1 – Nov 3, 2026 estimated.
228
same dates a year earlier
Nov 4, 2024 – Nov 3, 2025 · -46 (-20%) this year · 1 per 150,000 vs 1 per 120,000 rides (est.)
Purple Line
Entries per report, darker = more oftenover 200,000100,000–200,00050,000–100,00025,000–50,000under 25,000Size = incidents. none. outside Chicago (no CPD data).
Purple Line
- Incidents
- 182
- Rate
- 1 per 150,000 rides
- Stations
- 26
- Most incidents
- Belmont (31)
- Homicide 1
- Criminal sexual assault 3
- Robbery 22
- Aggravated assault 13
- Aggravated battery 30
- Simple battery 113
Purple Line stations · all 26, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
| Station | Incidents | Per ride |
|---|---|---|
| Evanston · outside Chicago | ||
| outside Chicago | – | |
| outside Chicago | – | |
| outside Chicago | – | |
| outside Chicago | – | |
| outside Chicago | – | |
| outside Chicago | – | |
| outside Chicago | – | |
| outside Chicago | – | |
| + Red, Yellow | 1 per 39,000 | |
| + Red | 1 per 190,000 | |
| + Red, Brown | 1 per 83,000 | |
| + Brown | 1 per 310,000 | |
| + Brown | 1 per 1,100,000 | |
| + Red, Brown | 1 per 190,000 | |
| + Brown | 1 per 510,000 | |
| + Brown | 1 per 440,000 | |
| + Brown | 1 per 220,000 | |
| + Brown | 1 per 740,000 | |
| + 5 lines | 1 per 130,000 | |
| + 4 lines no entries since Feb 2026 | – | |
| + 4 lines | 1 per 150,000 | |
| + 4 lines | 1 per 370,000 | |
| + 3 lines | 1 per 160,000 | |
| + 3 lines | 1 per 280,000 | |
| + 3 lines | 1 per 1,500,000 | |
| + 3 lines | 1 per 510,000 | |
Per ride = 1 incident per X entries (rides). Ridership through Aug 31, 2026, later days estimated.
Time of day · Purple Line stretches and stations, rate per ride, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
Time of day on the Purple Line, by stretch or station, Nov 4, 2025 – Nov 3, 2026
182 reports of violent crime incl. simple battery
| Stretch | 12–4 am | 4–8 am | 8 am–noon | noon–4 pm | 4–8 pm | 8 pm–12 am |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Howard – Belmont67 reports · via Wilson | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | 1 per 80,000 | fewer than 10 reports | 1 per 82,000 | fewer than 10 reports | 1 per 13,000 |
| Chicago – Clark/Lake37 reports · via Merchandise Mart | not rated: too few survey trips for this block | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | fewer than 10 reports | 1 per 150,000 | fewer than 10 reports |
| Washington/Wabash – Harold Washington Library-State/Van Buren30 reports · via Adams/Wabash | 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 |
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.