The web site below provides up to date crime information, and serves as a great example of GIS in action, using open source data. It aggregates open police force data with social media signals along with other sources to build a comprehensive catalogue of crime and safety information.
Web link: https://crimerate.co.uk/
Tables of data are available for use in the classroom, or you can explore the map for a specific location.
Each location offers a multitude of raw data, or you can explore the map in great detail. The interactive map shows criminal offences that took place between September 2020 and August 2021, and these can be filtered by offence type. Each points on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded. Taller points represent more crimes; and small points indicate fewer crimes in that area. The point colours vary from yellow (low) through blue and purple (medium), up to red for the highest numbers of crimes recorded. By hovering over a point you can see a breakdown of crime types recorded at that location.
Barnstaple is the nearest town of any size to me, and is shown to be the most dangerous small town in Devon, and the third most dangerous overall out of Devon's 430 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Barnstaple in 2020 was 81 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Devon's overall crime rate, coming in 37% higher than the Devon rate of 51 per 1,000 residents. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Barnstaple is the 119th most dangerous small town, and the 958th most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
Why not check out your own home town - or your next holiday destination!
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