Using crime rates for your area on UKCrimeStats

The safety of your community is paramount, and one way to gauge the level of safety in your area is by consulting a crime rating. Most people think of their area in terms of Postcode Districts or just postcodes – so you could start by obtaining a Postcode Crime Report for a postcode district like […]

Crime mapping in the UK

Here at UKCrimeStats, we’ve been doing crime mapping and working with heatmaps since 2011. UKCrimeStats subscribers find it useful to run heatmaps over their chosen area, their chosen time period and by all or any particular crime type. See video here for details. It’s important to understand though that the UK has a rich tradition […]

Which products of UKCrimeStats are most popular?

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 £1.99. Very popular. Often customers buy several. Nowhere else can you get 17 pages, with […]

Crime Rates in the UK – what you need to know

First of all what is a crime rate? A crime rate is a way of measuring crime relative to the size of the population in a given area. So if for example a given area had a population of 100 and there were 100 crimes over 12 months, that would represent a very high crime […]

Crime Statistics in the UK: A Comprehensive Overview

As a society, it is important to stay informed about crime rates and trends in order to understand the state of our communities and work towards crime prevention. In this blog post, we will delve into the latest crime statistics in the UK and examine how they have changed over time. Perhaps the first point […]

How to check crime in my area using UKCrimeStats?

We have lots of options for you. If you have a postcode for your location in England, Wales or Northern Ireland, we recommend the following; 1) The Postcode Report This really is useful if you want a detailed oversight of your area including heatmaps and statistics across all crime types and an easy comparision with […]

A correlation between crime and road accidents?

I was just thinking about this because we have both crime and road accident datasets on UKCrimeStats and it would be a good study. It turns out quite a lot of work has been done on this before – like here in Japan. But no one has done it, as far as I’m aware, with […]

Now updated to July 2022

Since early this morning. It only became available yesterday. I did actually write to the new Home Secretary congratulating her on her appointment and made clear how important it was to many more people than myself that the crime data was released on time. Who knows, maybe it worked. Changes of government always slow things […]