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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: 2006 Summary

In 2006 there were 123,194 total offences throughout the province, that's around 70 offences per 1,000 people. This year the biggest fall from the previous year was in ‘Theft - vehicle crime’, Graph of year sparkline (-17.3%) while the biggest rise was in ‘Other Offences - total’, Graph of year sparkline (+58.8%)

2006 in detail

Graph of Violent Crime in 2006 34,408 Violent Crime (+5.8%)

Graph of Offences against the person in 2006 30,953 Offences against the person (+5.5%)

Graph of Offences against the person - assaults in 2006 24,271 Offences against the person - assaults (+3.5%)

Graph of Sexual Offences in 2006 1,711 Sexual Offences (+1.5%)

Graph of Burglary - Total in 2006 12,836 Burglary - Total (-4.1%)

Graph of Burglary - domestic burglary in 2006 7,259 Burglary - domestic burglary (-0.6%)

Graph of Robbery in 2006 1,744 Robbery (+17.3%)

Graph of Theft - Total in 2006 29,481 Theft - Total (-5.2%)

Graph of Theft - vehicle crime in 2006 8,125 Theft - vehicle crime (-17.3%)

Graph of Fraud & Forgery in 2006 5,106 Fraud & Forgery (-1.8%)

Graph of Criminal Damage in 2006 34,801 Criminal Damage (+10.7%)

Graph of Offences against the state in 2006 1,301 Offences against the state (+9.8%)

Graph of Other Offences - total in 2006 5,261 Other Offences - total (+58.8%)

Graph of Other Offences - drug offences in 2006 2,944 Other Offences - drug offences (+12.3%)

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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