UK Crime Stats by Postcode (data.police.uk area reports)

Get one clean crime report per area for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, straight from official data.police.uk open data. Enter postcodes, postcode districts or lat/lng points. For each one you get:

• total crimes and the monthly average over up to 36 months
• counts for all 14 police.uk categories (violence and sexual offences, burglary, anti-social behaviour, shoplifting, vehicle crime…)
• the top 3 categories and the violent-crime share
• trend: last 3 months vs the previous 3, and year on year (24+ months)
• the share of crimes closed with "no suspect identified"
• a monthly series (total, anti-social behaviour, violence, burglary)
• local authority and police force

Every report covers the same 1-mile radius, so areas compare like for like. No scraping, no login, no proxies. Aggregated output only: no streets, no crime IDs and no incident locations.

Who it's for

• Property investors, buyers and letting agents comparing areas
• Relocation, insurance and retail-site analysts
• Journalists and local content creators
• AI agents that need a quick, structured "how safe is this area" answer

Input

Field	Example	Notes
areas	["BB11", "CF10 1EP", "53.78,-2.25"]	Postcodes, districts or lat,lng. Max 100 per run.
months	12	1 to 36. 24+ adds a year-on-year change.
latestMonth	2026-08	Optional. Defaults to the latest published month.
includeMonthlyBreakdown	true

Output (one row per area)

{
  "area": "BB11",
  "adminDistrict": "Burnley",
  "policeForce": "lancashire",
  "radius": "1 mile around the area centre",
  "firstMonth": "2024-09",
  "lastMonth": "2026-08",
  "totalCrimes": 14397,
  "avgCrimesPerMonth": 599.9,
  "violentCrime": 4352,
  "antiSocialBehaviour": 3338,
  "shoplifting": 1791,
  "burglary": 620,
  "topCategories": ["violentCrime", "antiSocialBehaviour", "shoplifting"],
  "changeLast3vsPrev3Pct": 10.9,
  "changeYearOnYearPct": -0.5,
  "noSuspectIdentifiedShare": 0.307,
  "monthly": [{ "month": "2026-08", "total": 730, "antiSocialBehaviour": 152, "violentCrime": 209, "burglary": 32 }]
}

(Real output from a test run on 23 Oct 2026, 24 months. The full sample is in test-output-sample.json.)

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.02 per area report (all months for one area). Areas with no published data, or errors, are not charged. Example: 50 postcodes × 24 months = $1.00.

Notes and limits

• Greater Manchester: GMP currently supplies no street-level data to data.police.uk (see the data.police.uk changelog). GMP areas return a note and are not charged.
• Scotland is not on data.police.uk. Scottish postcodes return a note and are not charged.
• Some forces skip a month now and then (e.g. Gloucestershire, August 2026). Missing months are listed in monthsMissing and left out of averages, not counted as zero.
• Northern Ireland outcomes are not published, so noSuspectIdentifiedShare is empty for PSNI.
• Locations in the source are approximate (anonymised "on or near" points). Counts include crimes on main roads, stations and town centres within the radius. They are counts, not rates per resident.
• A district report is centred on the district's centre point. It does not cover the whole district.
• Data lags about 2 months. Not a safety guarantee or advice.

Data source and licence

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (data.police.uk). Location lookup by postcodes.io (contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right; Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right; ONS data © Crown copyright). Not affiliated with or endorsed by the Home Office or any police force.

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