Updated to May 2021

You can always see where we are on updates on this page. As a rule, we typically have the crime and property prices done 2-3 days after the data is available, which is usually the last Friday of the month or later. This time took a bit longer because we were rebuilding data tables. When […]

The 10 worst postcode sectors for fatal accidents in 2019

All accidents are terrible but to lose a life is a tragedy. So it is important to analyse where these are happening. Postcode_Sector region Total Fatalities BS20 7 North Somerset 4 ML11 8 South Lanarkshire 4 NN7 4 Daventry 4 WR12 7 Wychavon 4 YO25 9 East Riding of Yorkshire 4 NG34 9 North Kesteven […]

Road Accidents – our new feature

A few years ago, I was writing a paper about roads and was astonished to find out that the cost of reported and unreported road accidents was £35 billion, 10 years ago. This is really quite close to crime at approx £50 billion. So why aren’t we doing more about it when accidents are by […]

A warm welcome to all our Hong Kong subscribers

We are very pleased to welcome a lot of interest emanating from Hong Kong over the last year. Its people can lay claim to one of world’s greatest postwar economic growth and freedom stories that is tragically being undone by authoritarianism. On a separate note, just over a year ago, we decided to offer GoCardless […]

Missing Sussex Police data now added

You can keep updated with what’s missing from data.police.uk on UKCrimestats.com here. Apart from Greater Manchester Police where the missing data and other failings has led to the recent sacking of the Chief Constable, there is now a growing problem with Staffordshire and West Mercia Police Forces who have not reported data for 5-6 months.

Property sales are still way down

You wouldn’t know it from the fairly breathless media coverage on property prices – i.e. mostly going up – but property sales in total are still running at a fraction – about half – what they were about a year ago, pre-pandemic. Typicallly, we expected to see 80-90,000 property transactions each month – now we’re […]