Crime data provision
Crime per Hectare – a new metric for subscribers
UKCrimeStats is excited to now offer subscribers a new metric – Crime per Hectare. To explain; In the history of crime statistics. First came total crime per given area. The shortcoming of this were that areas varied hugely in size and population. Then came crime rate – a way of deflating the impact of crime relative […]
Experimenting with design layout . . .
Let us know your thoughts on crime@economicpolicycentre.com – we had no choice really as most people now access this site by mobile and tablet we have now added a google searchbox – our bespoke searchbox is still available further down the page on the right.
All postcodes now with 0.5 and 0.25 mile radius crime calculations
Today, most Britons live at relatively high population density in an urban environment and don’t move around that much on foot from where they live or work. A mile can actually cover very different neighbourhoods or include hotspots that may have little bearing on your immediate environment. That’s why we realised that we needed to add […]
Crime data now updated to May 2015
Property data for May 2015 will be updated shortly too. We’ve also fixed a couple of bugs that creeped in; i) http://ukcrimestats.com/LSOA/ – the report and export generating function is now working flawlessly ii) http://ukcrimestats.com/MembersArea/Analysis/ (only visible to subscribers) – this page which allows users to see which Police Force all the way down to subdivision, postcode […]
Guest post by Quentin Hanley: Using Taylor’s Law to reveal potential crime data manipulation
There is a relationship, Taylor’s Law, that has the potential to reveal crime data manipulation. This is useful considering Tom Winsor of HMIC told the Home Affairs Select Committee last year, that the questions of whether officers are fiddling data is “where, how much (and) how severe”. Before exploring these issues, I should explain that […]
3 year anniversary – now updated to December 2013
UKCrimeStats is now updated to December 2013. We now have 37 months of data and over 3 calendar years. Since the very beginning, we’ve made huge strides and with your support, will continue to do so. If you like what we’re doing, please do like us on the facebook link.
All England and Wales postcodes now matched automatically to LSOAs and MSOAs
This has been running for a while but I realised it was time to tell you. Here at UKCrimeStats, we make lots of incremental improvements all the time – so much work goes into this platform. So, if you type in your postcode to the searchbox and scroll down the results to the bottom, you will […]
Northern Ireland crime data now added from September 2011
We now have monthly Northern Ireland Crime data stretching back to September 2011. Here is the Police Service of Northern Ireland page. We have also added postcode sector and postcode districts for Northern Ireland so you can see crime data for these. And last but certainly not least, we have added all 890 Northern Ireland Super Output […]
Launch of Postcode Data Generator – up to 5,000 postcodes at once
Today we launch our Postcode Data Generator; http://www.ukcrimestats.com/PostcodeTool/ Costing just £19.95 for up to 5,000 postcodes, the PDG is the cost-effective choice for Insurance Companies, Academics, Security Analysts, Police Crime Commissioners, Journalists, Estate Agents, Geospatial Analysts, Policy Professionals and Everyday People. To match crime, income, population, environmental and other data for your list of UK postcodes, […]