Black Neighborhoods See the Highest Rates of City Sticker Ticketing

The 10 Chicago community areas with the highest rates of ticketing between 2011 and 2015 are all more than 80 percent black.

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10 Community Areas with the Highest Rates of Ticketing

CommunityRateBlackWhiteHispanic
North Lawndale3.189%2%7%
West Englewood3.193%1%5%
West Garfield Park2.896%2%2%
Englewood2.795%1%3%
Washington Park2.796%0%1%
East Garfield Park2.591%4%4%
Austin2.383%4%11%
Woodlawn2.285%8%2%
Greater Grand Crossing2.196%1%1%
Auburn Gresham2.097%1%2%

10 Community Areas with the Lowest Rates of Ticketing

CommunityRateBlackWhiteHispanic
Forest Glen0.21%72%12%
Edison Park0.31%87%9%
Norwood Park0.31%81%12%
Dunning0.32%66%27%
O'Hare0.41%75%8%
Jefferson Park0.41%65%23%
North Park0.43%51%20%
Mount Greenwood0.44%87%6%
Edgewater0.514%55%16%
Montclare0.54%28%62%

Note: Approximately 0.9 percent of all ticket addresses could not be located. An estimated 1.3 percent of all ticket addresses are incorrectly located in an adjacent community area. Based on Chicago parking tickets for the period 2011-2015, joined with demographic data from the American Community Survey data from the same period.

Source: Chicago Department of Finance, Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning, U.S. Census Bureau