Crime nearby
We show crimes reported to police.uk within about 200 metres of the home over the last 12 months.
#Around homes
The main number is reports around homes: burglary, robbery, violence, vehicle crime, damage and anti-social behaviour logged on streets. That's what you'd notice living there.
police.uk pins every report to a nearby fixed point. Some of those points are shops, petrol stations, stations, pubs and other busy places. Reports there, and shop thefts, come next as "Plus 84 more at shops and busy places", with their own count. If one place has a big share, we name it, for example a petrol station 230 metres away. Under By type, every report is listed once, and the groups add up to the full total.
police.uk's burglary figures include shops and offices. Leaving out the ones at busy places removes most of them, but a few may still be in.
#The position bar
The bar compares reports around homes with every residential area of the same size in the same council, from fewer to more. We leave out parks, woods and golf courses, and we don't compare with busy shopping streets or stations. The words go from "among the lowest" to "among the highest".
We compare within the council, not the whole country, because a busy London street and a quiet village lane are different places to live.
#Three years of reports
We show how reports around homes changed over three 12-month periods, with the burglaries and violent crimes each year. The sentence says if they fell, rose, stayed about the same, or went up and down. police.uk keeps 36 months, so three years is as far back as we can go. If data is missing, we say so and don't show a direction.
If police.uk doesn't have the latest month yet, we show the last full 12 months and say which months they are.
#How we read crime
These are reports, not your risk. Not every crime is reported. More reports can mean more people pass through, not that it's unsafe to live there. Look at the types of crime and the trend, and walk the street after dark if you can.
police.uk doesn't cover Scotland.