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So where are they across England and Wales? Well over the last 12 months (Oct-23 to Sept-24), they’re all in London, as measured by the number “Theft from the Person” crimes per hectare. You can do that with a login on our Neighbourhood report page. Rank Neighbourhood Policeforce Pop. Land Area (Hectares) Theft From Person […]
Running this website – with much more than crime, there is constant work in staying up to date. Take postcodes for example – every 3 months, there are new postcodes, retired postcodes and postcodes that seemingly come back to life. Here they are if you are interested. We’ve also just updated Road Accidents for Calendar […]
Shoplifting has been in the news a lot recently, mostly to do with the rising level and perceived Police inaction by shopkeepers. An interesting article here in the Times points to the problems with bigger shops – self-checkout stalls and fewer staff, has also made it easier for shoplifters. As the piece says, “A change […]
A very disturbing article in the Financial Times recently about top Indian businessmen getting mugged in London. A message that was improbably passed on to the Shadow Foreign Secretary, David Lammy when he was in New Delhi. Probably not what he thought he was going there to discuss. So I decided to do some research. […]
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 crime rate again you say? Crime rate is measured by the number of crimes in […]
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 the last 10 years. To answer this question, I decided to measure it using total […]
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 […]
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 in residential and daytime population. For example, CR0 in Croydon, London has a residential population […]
So what is your area? In the UK, when people say “my area,” they are generally referring to the geographical region or neighborhood where they live or work. This could include a specific town, city, or borough, or it could refer to a more localized area such as a particular street, housing estate, or commercial […]
We can see when people are trying to find out about postcode districts and which ones. BD9 – a postcode district in Bradford is one such example. On UKCrimeStats, we can show you the map of the area, tell you the residential and daytime populations and of course, the crime numbers, road accident data, energy […]