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Originally Posted by tjp
I'm honestly surprised to hear that South Shore gained population... The narrative I had been hearing is that it was a formerly black middle / working class neighborhood that has become more violent and less desirable in recent years?
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From a real estate perspective, South Shore had been selling well for awhile now from all the reports and data I saw.
From a crime perspective, I can't speak for it since I'm not there but statistically 2020 for many types wasn't really any or much higher than 2010 there. Some rates like Robbery and Burglary were way lower in 2019 and 2020 than 2010. No different than some other places in the city. Crimes like Assault may be down technically but shootings and homicides are up.
These have been adjusted via population - for 2019 I used the 2020 census number.
Assault (of any kind)
2020: 1547.13 per 100K
2019: 1476.64 per 100K
2010: 1530.47 per 100K
Not a world of difference
Robbery
2020: 487.3 per 100K
2019: 563.35 per 100K
2010: 963.28 per 100K
2020 was half of what 2010 was. 2019 was way lower than 2010.
Battery
2020: 4669.17 per 100K
2019: 3955.01 per 100K
2010: 3697.37 per 100K
2020 is a bit higher than 2010.
Burglary
2020: 791.17 per 100K
2019: 984.43 per 100K
2010: 2345.7 per 100K
2019 and 2020 were way lower than 2010.
Theft
2020: 2117.8 per 100K
2019: 2812.92 per 100K
2018: 3672.37 per 100K
2020 and 2019 were a lot lower than 2010.
Now as far as the differences in racial makeup of South Shore?
Other: +781 people
Black: +473 people
Hispanic: +459 people
White: +224 people
Asian: +24 people
The Hispanic population is expanding quite a bit in parts of the south side. West Englewood went from 2% to nearly 20% in a decade. Auburn Gresham went from under 1% in 2010 to fast approaching 4%. It'll be interesting to see what happens there and how much it goes into places like Chatham, South Shore, etc over the next decade or two.