So I decided to do my first video, now on youtube.com so you can see how it works. The bigger the radius and the number of crimes in the area, the longer it takes to load – so please bear that in mind. Apart from that I hope it’s fairly self-explanatory. As always, any questions […]

Crime for April 2019, Property prices for April 2019, Corporate Ownership data and latest postcodes. Always plenty to do here to keep this website up to date for all our users.

We have crime data going back to December 2010 and populations can change quite quickly. We now have a full set of annual official estimates for the small area Lower Layer Super Output Areas (LSOAs) and Middle Super Output Areas (MSOAs). The very latest available year is 2017, we expect to see 2018 in the […]

All done. Kent Police however is still far behind on catching up with missing data. Officially, the changelog says that they are only missing ASB data from November 2018 due to a change in IT systems. But it seems to go much deeper than that. In a typical month, Kent would report 20k crime and […]

I’ve looked at this using postcode sectors – a small unit and probably the most relevant. This is something you can easily query with a ukcrimestats login. Here are the top 10 – I knew Cambridge was bad, but not that bad ! Rank Postcode Sectors Area Bike Theft Total 1 CB1 2 Cambridge (Central  […]

This is a unique feature of ukcrimestats – you can query the land registry data covering England and Wales and answer questions like this with a login. Here are the top 10; Jan to Dec 2018 Postcode Sector Region Total Period EX34 8 Exeter 170 W6 0 Hammersmith and Fulham 159 IP27 9 Forest Heath […]

The answer according to the Land Registry data, which you can query with our website here – is the Anchor Hanover Group who have taken ownership fo 1870 properties between December 2018 and February 2019 alone. AHG have a line in retirement homes according to their website. After AHG, it’s Torus62 (me neither, but they […]

A good piece in the BBC here recently – Crime figures: Do the police know how much there really is? I’m always at pains to stress the limitations of crime data when people phone/email me – as they frequently do. I even republished a chapter by Nick Ross, formerly of Crimewatch from his excellent book, […]

About once a week, somebody emails me wanting to place an infographic on our website about crime statistics and security solutions to drive traffic to their webiste and push their product at no cost to themselves. Nothing commercially wrong with that. And I would go further, crime preventative measures should in general be much more […]

Using our new feature, see “Corporate” on the menu above, you can now find out exactly which corporations own what where. An invaluable tool. So I thought you may be interested to know who the top 10 owners were by the number of properties;