Crime Risk
Neighbourhood safety score from police records
This safety score rates a neighbourhood from 0 to 100, where higher is safer. It draws on nearby police-recorded incidents from data.police.uk, weighted by seriousness and how recent each is. Scores cover England and Wales. Scotland's police do not publish this data, and Northern Ireland uses different neighbourhood boundaries.
What This Means
The score describes the streets around this property, not the property itself. Police publish crime locations as anonymised map points. Each incident is placed near where it happened, rather than at the exact address. A quiet street can therefore sit inside a lower-scoring neighbourhood, and the reverse is also true. Insurers price home and contents cover partly by postcode. A low score can lift your quote and your excess.
Score Ranges
Very High Crime
0 to 20Recorded crime is well above the national average. Check the category breakdown to see which offences drive the score.
High Crime
21 to 40Recorded crime is above the national average. Check the category breakdown to see which offences drive the score.
Medium Crime
41 to 60Recorded crime is about the national average for this type of area.
Low Crime
61 to 80Recorded crime is below the national average.
Very Low Crime
81 to 100Recorded crime is very low, well below the national average.
Practical Advice
- Get a home and contents insurance quote for this exact postcode before you make an offer.
- Visit the street at different times of day, including after dark, to judge how safe it feels.
- Compare this score against neighbourhoods you already know before reading anything into the number.
- Look at the crime-type breakdown on data.police.uk, since burglary and antisocial behaviour affect a home differently.
Additional Information
Each score covers a Lower Layer Super Output Area, a census neighbourhood of roughly 1,500 residents. It draws on a rolling 36 months of records, so a single incident moves the number very little.