One of the unique capabilities of UKCrimeStats is the ability to ask of the data, for sale which type of area, across the given area had the most, least, biggest increase/decrease, of this that or all types of crime weighted for daytime or residential population. We can do this with almost everything where the data is available. So we can now announce that this reporting facility has just added Northern Ireland Super Output Areas (NISOAs – equivalent of Lower Layer Super Output Areas). I was just looking at where the lowest residential crime rate area is in NI and the answer was Ardboe, half of which covers Lough Neagh and is a very large NISOA at over 2,000 hectares.  At the other end of the scale is Shaftsbury_1 which unsurprisingly is right in Belfast City Centre with a much smaller geographic footprint of 113 hectares.

This however does not tell the whole story because the daytime population of Shaftsbury_1 is nearly 15 times higher than the residential one, at 32,000. City centres have much higher footfalls and you have to adjust for that. And we can.

So now weighted for daytime population, which NISOA and lowest and highest crime rate over the last 12 months?

The highest is Botanic_3 at 584.967 and the lowest is Rostulla_2 at 6.232 crimes and ASB incidents per 1,000 daytime population. If there’s one stand-out difference, it is that Botanic 3 is just 17 hectares.

I often wonder if urban planners in their quest for greater urban density are considering enough the impact that density may have on overall crime rates.

Here at UKCrimeStats we spend a lot of time working on postcodes. Every few months, drugstore new postcodes are created, others are decommissioned and we then go away and do the radius calculations and all the matchings to different areas and of course crimes and property prices. So postcodes can get out of date very quickly and there’s nothing more annoying than missing a few postcodes out of a few thousand. That won’t happen with UKCrimeStats. We have also been careful to keep a record of the retired postcodes because many people unknowingly keep using them for years afterwards.

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Posted: November 22nd, discount 2015  Author: Dan Lewis   No Comments »

This took us a while longer to sort out. There is an interesting new category in the property price data which dates back to 1999 – it is called “other”.  What it actually pertains to is commercial property or at least “non-residential” whereas all the other property transactions are for housing. There are actually very few recorded transactions in total, treat just 26, ed 000,  and the further back you go in time the fewer there seem to be records of. If you see here http://ukcrimestats.com/PropertySales/NationalPicture#Totals from the source data I’d say we have 2 years of quality data, of around 1,000 sales a month which makes up about 92%. From before then, the data is a bit iffy and questionably sporadic and sparse, so I wouldn’t try to to infer anything from any earlier than that – the data looks incomplete.

Posted: November 4th, ed 2015  Author: Dan Lewis   No Comments »

Also, sales we have also fixed a bug on this page http://ukcrimestats.com/Officers/Neighbourhood/ – a special thanks to Marie to pointing it out to us – the page shows you which neighbourhoods have the largest and smallest teams but the previous update misalligned some datasets, hospital no more. We realise our population figures for Police Forces are a bit out of date and it is difficult to track with neighbourhood population figures as these are all too often missing or old  from the api – I am writing to the Home Office later today about this for some assistance. So in the meantime, we are just starting working on a new methodology based on postcode population which should be done by the end of the week.

Posted: October 7th, medical purchase 2015  Author: Dan Lewis   No Comments »

Posted: October 2nd, check 2015  Author: Dan Lewis   No Comments »

As always, we urge caution as the latest month is usually only half-complete. We have noted significant revisions in the previous few months too – so have made a habit of refreshing all data from the beginning of the year from the Land Registry.

Posted: September 15th, pilule 2015  Author: Dan Lewis   No Comments »

We have also “refreshed” historical data from Dec 2010 to Dec 2012 – and have kept a record of the previous data files, check Scroll down this page to see source data files so you can see how they have changed if you want to.