Overdose deaths are accidental toxicity deaths with the incident in Chicago. They are not all of Cook County and they are not police reports.
01 / Police data
Drug offence trends
Select a measure to inspect its trend. Missing years stay blank; partial years stay separate.
Last updated Reviewed dataset
Latest complete year · 20257,419police reports
Year over year+23.7%2024 → 2025
Change since 2016−44.4%2016 → 2025
police reports2025 · 7,419View chart data
Narcotics · police reports · complete years| Year | Value |
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| 2016 | 13,333 |
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| 2017 | 11,683 |
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| 2018 | 13,593 |
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| 2019 | 15,080 |
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| 2020 | 7,493 |
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| 2021 | 5,420 |
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| 2022 | 4,757 |
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| 2023 | 5,455 |
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| 2024 | 5,998 |
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| 2025 | 7,419 |
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02 / Public health
Overdose deaths
Deaths are a separate measure. Police counts do not measure overdose deaths or drug use.
City of Chicago
Accidental toxicity deaths
Last updated Reviewed dataset
Latest complete year · 2025707deaths
Year over year−25.0%2024 → 2025
Change since 2016−0.4%2016 → 2025
deaths2025 · 707View chart data
Accidental toxicity deaths · deaths · complete years| Year | Value |
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| 2016 | 710 |
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| 2017 | 773 |
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| 2018 | 899 |
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| 2019 | 968 |
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| 2020 | 1,377 |
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| 2021 | 1,508 |
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| 2022 | 1,509 |
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| 2023 | 1,438 |
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| 2024 | 943 |
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| 2025 | 707 |
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03 / Behind the numbers
Sources & coverage
Last updated 2026-10-01 · accepted source review.
- The reviewed crime extract publishes these primary types. 2016–2025 are full years. There is no neighbourhood drug map on this page.
- There is no neighbourhood drug map.
- These measures are not added into a drug index or used to rank cities. There is no neighbourhood drug map.
Chicago Police Department · Crimes - 2001 to Present
Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)
· City of Chicago Data Terms of Use. Counts are grouped from the portal extract.
Cook County Medical Examiner's Office · Medical Examiner Case Archive
Open source ↗ · Last updated 2026-10-01 (reviewed)
City of Chicago · Cook County open data. Attribute the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office.