Recorded Crime Totals

What is a typical month of crime in February?

We have just updated for February 2023 and now we have 10 years of February Data using the same crime category, I thought it would be interesting to look at trends. Here is a graph that tells you everything. The vertical lines allow you to easily see where February is and you can see quite […]

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 […]

On Police Stations and Crime

An insightful piece by London Mayor Boris Johnson today and he summed up very well the issue of how useful Police buildings and stations are in fighting crime; Police buildings do not make arrests. They do not lumber down the street in pursuit of criminals. They do not observe crime, and according to most criminologists […]

The last 3 years of national crime totals

Here they are – I have sourced 2009 and 2010 data from table 2 of this pdf – Crime in England and Wales – and added in our own figures (which are from Police.uk) for 2011. YEAR Total Recorded Crime 2009 4,447,539 2010 4,159,468 2011 4,038,994 With a subscription to UKCrimeStats you can pick any […]

Jan 2012 now live on UKCrimeStats – time to join

We now have a database of 7.6 million crimes and ASB incidents spanning the period Dec 2010 to Jan 2012. With a subscription starting at just £9.99 a month you can compare your selected crime types or all of them between Jan 2012 and Jan 2011 (or any other month or time period)  across all […]

December 2011 Police.uk data late this month

Some of you have been asking when we will have the data ready on UKCrimeStats for the month of December 2011 – so were we ! Unfortunately, as 3rd party developers, we are beholden to the external release by Police.uk which is meant to appear on the 25th of every month. Our inquiries have now […]

UKCrimeStats and crime data in the Sunday Times today

A big news piece today in the Sunday Times today – Austerity crimewave hits Britain – who we worked with to compile the data about the austerity wave of crime across Britain. You may not have immediately realised from the feature article but all the data was compiled by this platform which the Economic Policy Centre owns. […]