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Way back in 2011 when I started this website, I took the plunge and decided to call it UKCrimeStats.com although there was no data for Scotland or Northern Ireland. About a year later, NI data appeared and then for years after there was nothing for Sotland until they released some not very good data at […]
A new feature for our subscribers, you can now choose from 3 different years for population datasets for Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) and Middle Super Output Areas (MSOAs). This matters if you want to match to corresponding data from the 2011 census or work from more recent population data for a more accurate […]
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 […]
Also, we have also fixed a bug on this page http://ukcrimestats.com/Officers/Neighbourhood/ – a special thanks to Marie to pointing it out to us – the page shows you which neighbourhoods have the largest and smallest teams but the previous update misalligned some datasets, no more. We realise our population figures for Police Forces are a bit out […]
We have just updated our residential population to the latest ONS mid-2013 estimates. This applies to; LSOAS MSOAS Parliamentary Constituencies in England and Wales and Wards This also affects our Postcode Data Generator which now has updated numbers for postcodes matched to LSOAs.
A couple of major advances – we now have MSOA daytime population data so you can adjust for the impact of daytime population. See our MSOA page here – to run the report and export the data requires a membership. Secondly, you can now run reports for LSOA for as many months as you want […]
We recently ran the January 2015 update and found one really odd bit; http://www.ukcrimestats.com/Neighbourhood/5948 – this neighbourhood in Wales where crime went from a monthly average of 1 to 340 ! We are confident that the data as released says this, as it does on police.uk http://www.police.uk/north-wales/GSW09/ but it’s either wrong or there was a major […]
As always, if you see anything that looks awry or a bit odd, don’t hesitate to get in touch and let us know.
We have just updated for July 2014. At this time of year, the stand-out hotspots across the country tend to be music festivals for drug crime when looking for biggest change month on month. So we had Glastonbury in June and the “Global Gathering” in Stratford-Upon-Avon in July. Of course they stand out because for […]
Deflating or inflating the impact of crime relative to the size of the population has long been a hot topic amongst criminologists when measuring crimes committed against a person. Using static residential population has limited utility unless it is a relatively static area that doesn’t have people coming and going into and out of it. How […]