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One of the pages visited the most on UKCrimeStats and indeed one of the search terms that brings people to UKCrimeStats is crime by postcode district. That’s because we are the only site who can instantly give you crime type/total/crime … Continue reading
I’ve written about this before but it’s worth pointing out again. There are real shortcomings in trying to compare different areas by crime rate. It really doesn’t give you a clear picture and leads to huge distortions. So what is … Continue reading
As someone who had items stolen from his car recently – I left it open and my prescription glasses and cheap scratched sunglasses were taken – I wanted to know more about it and if the hotspots had changed in … Continue reading
This is a question that needs to be asked because the UK’s approx. 2,500 postcode districts vary massively in size – from 2.33 hectares in London WC1A to 85,165 hectares in LD3 in Wales. And they vary just as hugely … Continue reading
1. The Postcode Crime Report. This works with full postcode or postcode district – just type in your postcode or postcode district, enter your email, select radius – if it’s a full postcode – and get it instantly after paying … Continue reading
A guest post by Quention Hanley: Roughly two years ago, we pointed out a key feature of crime: its tendency to accelerate as population density increases. This type of behaviour has been observed many times in many parts of the … Continue reading
For our subscribers, we have now upgraded our Scottish Crime Datazone page to enable you to run reports that discover out of all 6,505 Datazones; Which had the highest/lowest total of crime in either 2007/08 or 2011-12? Which had the … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
A wide range of indicators like wages, patents, and R&D employment increase with the population of cities. This behaviour is often referred to as urban scaling. The interesting aspect of urban scaling is that it does not follow a straight … Continue reading