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 all – annual crime total\/not any category – by datazone. And it always come through years late too.<\/p>\n
Fast forward to today and I’m delighted to say that Scottish data is now much better and we are publishing it on 2 pages here;<\/p>\n
Crime by Scottish Council – see and compare crime across 32 different councils<\/a><\/p>\n and<\/p>\n Crime by Scottish Electoral Ward<\/a> – see and compare crime across 350 wards<\/p>\n The data is much improved on several levels to crime by datazone, namely;<\/p>\n i) There are now 7 categories versus just 1 before (Non-sexual crimes of violence), Other, Sexual, Micellaneous offences, crimes of dishonesty, Motor vehicle offences, Fire-raising\/vandalism)<\/p>\n ii) The data is monthly – the latest available month is June 2023 (yes, still slow and 15 months behind everywhere else\u00a0 but better)<\/p>\n iii) It is matched to Scottish Electoral Wards also known as Multi Member Wards – that’s not as good geospatially as Datazone of which there were nearly 7000. But we now have crime categories.<\/p>\n iv) There is even superior granularity in that if you drill down further, they will actually tell you which specific criminal offence – out of approx 1400. That is way better than www.police.uk – I’m still thinking about how to integrate that.<\/p>\n Anyway, caveats apply – notably that Scotland has a different legal\/criminal system and you can’t really compare. But you could certainly compare crime rates for the same periods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading