Chicago Traffic Camera Analysis

A decade of automated traffic enforcement in Chicago — 23 million violations from 549 cameras across 251 intersections, July 2014 to November 2024. Source: Chicago Data Portal.

Camera type

Total violations
Active cameras
Intersections
Average per day

Violations by year

Annual totals across the full period.

Violations per active camera per day

Normalized for fleet size and month length, so the line reflects enforcement intensity rather than how many cameras happened to be switched on. The March 2021 step is the city lowering the speed-camera ticketing threshold from 10 mph over the limit to 6 mph.

Where violations concentrate

Top 15 intersections in the selected range.

Seasonal pattern

Average violations per day by calendar month. Peak and trough are highlighted.

Camera locations

Every camera in the selected slice, sized by violations recorded. Hover for the address.

View the underlying data