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Northern Ireland Crime Map

Mapping and charting criminal activity by ward from NISRA Statistics.

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Fig.1 Crime density map of Northern Ireland.

Crime in Northern Ireland: 2003 Summary

In 2003 there were 142,496 total offences throughout the province, that's around 83 offences per 1,000 people. This year the biggest fall from the previous year was in ‘Theft - vehicle crime’, Graph of year sparkline (-14.6%) while the biggest rise was in ‘Other Offences - drug offences’, Graph of year sparkline (+73.6%)

2003 in detail

Graph of Violent Crime in 2003 32,421 Violent Crime (+9.0%)

Graph of Offences against the person in 2003 28,455 Offences against the person (+9.0%)

Graph of Offences against the person - assaults in 2003 22,322 Offences against the person - assaults (+4.2%)

Graph of Sexual Offences in 2003 1,469 Sexual Offences (+2.7%)

Graph of Burglary - Total in 2003 18,659 Burglary - Total (+8.8%)

Graph of Burglary - domestic burglary in 2003 10,125 Burglary - domestic burglary (+11.7%)

Graph of Robbery in 2003 2,497 Robbery (+12.4%)

Graph of Theft - Total in 2003 41,911 Theft - Total (+0.5%)

Graph of Theft - vehicle crime in 2003 15,550 Theft - vehicle crime (-14.6%)

Graph of Fraud & Forgery in 2003 8,801 Fraud & Forgery (+2.1%)

Graph of Criminal Damage in 2003 36,571 Criminal Damage (-8.5%)

Graph of Offences against the state in 2003 1,771 Offences against the state (+51.8%)

Graph of Other Offences - total in 2003 2,362 Other Offences - total (+65.5%)

Graph of Other Offences - drug offences in 2003 1,924 Other Offences - drug offences (+73.6%)

FAQ, Notes & Metadata

FAQ

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.

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