Kapri

You can now compare crime levels in different areas. Link

My area is a number 1 which is the lowest crime area

livinginreality

So is mine!That does'nt surprise me though,as I've always said to people to write posts like "Can't wait to get out of this crime ridden s***hole"it does'nt apply to where I live!

Nu-Shooz

I live in Shelf, West Yorks.

It was number 1 too

Mummy in the foothills

So was where my family lives, all cool blue or no color at all, #1

SouthernGal_67

I wasn't worried about U.K crime til I followed your link and saw the orange and red cloud above where I'm going!

king kong

Any chance insuring my car at your place

Fleaflyfloflum

Thanks Kapri, that very handy. We have our eye on a house on the outskirts of Rayleigh. It appears they are lowest crime 1 too!!

Cape Blue

Looks more like a population density map.

Patzy

Thanks for posting this ......not worried about crime in the UK after living in Memphis

Jules Europe

When I first looked at this map that is what I thought as well, but on closer examination there does seem to be a distinct pattern, as well to do areas in cities tend to be on yellow as opposed to red. I think a map like this though, really serves to help people who are moving into an area and have no knowledge of that area from a crime perspective, a quick look at a map like this can reveal a lot. I`m not sure though, if a London red is the same as say a Birmingham red.

TraceyW

No colour over our little area either!! Then again, not surprised really as the most shocking thing that's happened here in a while are the town 'youths running rampage around the town. They installed an upturned traffic cone on the head of the town statue and placed pansies around its rim' !!!!!!!!!!!

Shocking, absolutely shocking!!

Sally Redux

That's what it looks like to me. Is it a simple count of the number of crimes? Tidbury Green has fewer crimes than Birmingham - yeah, amazing revelation.

jonfrank123

Or in our part of West Oxfordshire, a bike theft seems to be the predominant crime in the last 4 months. It makes a lot of sense we have a population of 2,500, I see the same people every day, people all know each other or at least say hello. I think that makes it a lot more difficult for someone to actually commit a crime ie be potentially faced with their victim every day.

Kapri

If you put in the postcode it gives you a number between 1 and 5.
1= low crime
5 = high crime

manc1

Interesting, thanks for that.