A statistical grouping dataset for comparative analysis of policing and crime reduction areas in the UK. It is published by the Home Office under the Data4NR reference and was last updated in July 2026. The dataset is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0 for the United Kingdom.
Use Cases
- Benchmarking crime rates based on the grouping of similar policing areas.
- Analyzing the effectiveness of crime reduction initiatives based on comparative area groups.
- Creating visualizations for public safety reports based on grouped statistical data.
Strengths
- Licensed under OGL-UK-3.0, allowing for broad reuse.
- Last updated in July 2026, suggesting recent maintenance.
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
Provenance
- Source
- Home Office
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-07-08 13:32:45.528739; freshness should be verified.
- Geography
- United Kingdom