Health & Fitness
West Town, Logan Square Residents Made Most 2021 Rat Complaints
A RentHop.com analysis of Chicago 311 calls found there has been an 11-percent spike in rat-related calls so far this year.
CHICAGO — Clearing, West Town, Lake View and Bridgeport are Chicago's rattiest neighborhoods, according to a new analysis of city data.
So far this year, the city's 311 call center fielded 60,054 rodent complaints. That's more than 22 per 1,000 Chicagoans, and an 11-percent spike over 2020, according to RentHop.com
In the Clearing community area this year, there have been 2,064 rodent complaints, which amounts to about 809 rat complaints per square mile.
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The West Town community, which covers a larger geographic area, had the most 3,312 rat complaints — about 724 per square mile. Logan Square rat complaints to 311 totaled 2,199. And there were 2,182 rat-related 311 calls in Lake View, about 698 complaints per square mile.
In Bridgeport, folks called to complain about rats 1,510 times.
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The RentHop analysis found 311 calls about rats more than tripled in the O'Hare community, and more than doubled in Edison Park, West Elsdon, Kenwood and Oakland.
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