Police recorded crime figures by Police Force Area and Community Safety Partnership areas (which equate in the majority of instances, to local authorities).

The crime rate in the United Kingdom was highest in England and Wales in 2023/24, at 89.7 crimes per 1,000 people, compared with Scotland which had 55 crimes per 1,000 population and Northern Ireland, at 52.3 crimes per 1,000 people. During this time period, the crime rate of England and Wales has usually been the highest in the UK, while Scotland's crime rate has declined the most, falling from 93.4 crimes per 1,000 people in 2002/03, to just 52.3 by 2021/22. Overall crime on the rise In 2022/23 there were approximately 6.74 million crimes recorded by the police in England and Wales, with this falling to 6.66 million in 2023/24. Although crime declined quite significantly between 2002/03 and 2013/14, this trend has been reversed in subsequent years. While there are no easy explanations for the recent uptick in crime, it is possible that reduced government spending on the police service was at least partly to blame. In 2009/10 for example, government spending on the police stood at around 19.3 billion pounds, with this cut to between 17.58 billion and 16.35 billion between 2012/13 and 2017/18. One of the most visible consequences of these cuts was a sharp reduction in the number of police officers in the UK. As recently as 2019, there were just 150,000 police officers in the UK, with this increasing to 171,000 by 2023. A creaking justice system During the period of austerity, the Ministry of Justice as a whole saw its budget sharply decline, from 9.1 billion pounds in 2009/10, to just 7.35 billion by 2015/16. Although there has been a reversal of the cuts to budgets and personnel in the justice system, the COVID-19 pandemic hit the depleted service hard in 2020. A backlog of cases grew rapidly, putting a strain on the ability of the justice system to process cases quickly. As of the first quarter of 2023, for example, it took on average 676 days for a crown court case to go from offence to conclusion, compared with 412 days in 2014. There is also the issue of overcrowding in prisons, with the number of prisoners in England and Wales dangerously close to operational capacity in recent months.

This dataset provides detailed information on the 2019 Index of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) for Birmingham, UK. The data is available at the postcode level and includes the Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) information.Data is provided at the LSOA 2011 Census geography.The decile score ranges from 1-10 with decile 1 representing the most deprived 10% of areas while decile 10 representing the least deprived 10% of areas.The IMD rank and decile score is allocated to the LSOA and all postcodes within it at the time of creation (2019).Note that some postcodes cross over LSOA boundaries. The Office for National Statistics sets boundaries for LSOAs and allocates every postcode to one LSOA only: this is the one which contains the majority of residents in that postcode area (as at 2011 Census).

The English Indices of Deprivation 2019 provide a comprehensive measure of relative deprivation across small areas in England. The indices are divided into several domains, each capturing a different aspect of deprivation:

Income Deprivation: Measures the proportion of the population experiencing deprivation due to low income, including those receiving income-related benefits. Employment Deprivation: Captures the proportion of the working-age population excluded from the labor market due to unemployment, illness, disability, or caring responsibilities. Education, Skills, and Training Deprivation: Assesses the lack of educational attainment and skills in the local population, including adult qualifications and children's educational performance. Health Deprivation and Disability: Measures the risk of premature death and the impairment of quality of life through poor physical or mental health. Crime Deprivation: Assesses the risk of personal and material victimization, including recorded crimes for violence, burglary, theft, and criminal damage. Barriers to Housing and Services: Measures the physical and financial accessibility of housing and local services, including overcrowding, homelessness, housing affordability, and distance to key services. Living Environment Deprivation: Assesses the quality of the local environment, including housing quality, air quality, and road traffic accidents.

Additionally, there are two supplementary indices:

Income Deprivation Affecting Children Index (IDACI): Focuses on children aged 0-15 living in income-deprived families. Income Deprivation Affecting Older People Index (IDAOPI): Focuses on people aged 60 and over living in income-deprived households.

These indices help identify areas with high levels of deprivation, guiding policy interventions and resource allocation to address socio-economic inequalities.

Open Postcode Geo is a postcode dataset and API optimised for geocoding applications. You can use Open Postcode Geo to geocode a dataset, geocode user input, and therefore build a proximity search.

Data is derived from the ONS (Office for National Statistics) postcode database and is free to use, subject to including attributions to ONS, OS (Ordinance Survey) and Royal Mail.

Information is also provided on a range of topics, including education, health, crime, business, etc.

Postcodes can be entered at area, district, sector, and unit level - see Postcode map for the geographical relationship between these.

This is a lookup file between Local Authority Districts, Community Safety Partnerships and Police Force Areas in England and Wales as at 31st December 2021. (File Size – 35 KB)Field Names - LAD21CD, LAD21NM, CSP21CD, CSP21NM, PFA21CD, PFA21NM, FIDField Types - Text, Text, Text, Text, Text, TextField Lengths - 9, 35, 9, 35, 9, 19FID = The FID, or Feature ID is created by the publication process when the names and codes / lookup products are published to the Open Geography portal.