Month: June 2016

Now with Postcode-matched National Property Price Rankings

Understanding how one area in crime and property pricing compares to another only takes you so far. For a decent overview, you need to understand where that crime level and those property prices compare at a national level. We now show this on UKCrimeStats. Take this random generated postcode DE738JU – just type this or any […]

Why UKCrimeStats tells you so much about your postcode . . .

We’re always adding features to UKCrimeStats – here’s another one. I would immodestly suggest that for individual postcodes, this is one of the best sources of data there is. So with a random generated postcode, here is an example of what each page offers; http://www.ukcrimestats.com/Postcode/HP157NS Population Males Females Households Links to energy data for the […]

Postcode areas, districts and sectors now with mapped shapes

I’ve always found postcodes a bit vague and have preferred shapes like lower layer super output areas. The thing is, no one thinks in terms of the latter, especially those who should like the insurance industry, so we have just done a major upgrade to show visually on our maps – a close estimate – […]

Updated to end April 2016 for Crime and Property

You can see by the way the effect that the budget had on the last minute increase in property transactions to avoid stamp duty in March 2016 – the highest volume of transactions since November 2007 at 104,000 across England and Wales. Not sure that’s a good harbinger for the economy as last time transactions […]