BANJAX Web Design, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland Crime Map

Mapping and charting criminal activity by ward from NISRA Statistics.

Show Ward labels with Offences

Fig.1 Crime density map of Northern Ireland.

In 2001 there were 119,912 total offences throughout the province, that's around 70 offences per 1,000 people.

24,323 Violent Crime

21,380 Offences against the person

17,048 Offences against the person - assaults

1,176 Sexual Offences

15,845 Burglary - Total

8,375 Burglary - domestic burglary

1,767 Robbery

36,887 Theft - Total

16,519 Theft - vehicle crime

8,044 Fraud & Forgery

32,320 Criminal Damage

786 Offences against the state

1,707 Other Offences - total

1,453 Other Offences - drug offences

Who are Banjax and why are they doing this?: Banjax is a web developer based in Belfast. We specialise in high-performance web applications and data visualisation for real people. When we started this company we believed it was important to give Belfast and Northern Ireland a better experience of the web and its potential. This crime map project is the first of what we hope are many similar applications.
Where does the data come from?: The data comes from the Northern Ireland Neighbourhood Information Service (NINIS) Data Catalogue.
How'd you do them there maps, like?: NINIS publishes data, like crime, for Northern Ireland by Ward (and various other divisions), we added the data to Postgres+PostGIS database and built a map overlay for Google maps using the NINIS data and shapefiles for each ward in Northern Ireland.