Violent crime rate
Indicates violent crimes per 100,000 inhabitants in the surrounding postcode. Violent crime sums murder, rape, robbery, and aggravated assault. Known or imputed for 27,533 postcodes — 81.1% of the postcodes Faraday knows.
At a glance
- Coverage today
- 81.1%
- Typical coverage
- 81.1%
- Postcodes with a value
- 27.5K
- Median
- 118.41 per_100k
- Most values come
- from the area
- Latest collection
- Dec 31, 2018
Distribution
n = 27,533Share of postcodes with a known value in each band. The middle 50% falls between 37.32 and 334.6 per_100k, shaded darkest.
P10 means 10% of postcodes have a value at or below this one, and P90 means 90% do. P25 and P75 bound the middle half. The median is the middle: half are below it, half above.
Coverage
Latest collection: 41,117 postcodesCoverage by state
Percentage of postcodes in each state with a value.
Coverage over time
81.1% todayShare of postcodes holding a value at each monthly snapshot. A value carries forward for one year.
How we arrive at a value
Whether a value was observed on the person themselves, carried from their address, or estimated from the people around them.
- On the person — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From address — 0%
- Not used for this attribute — no value is inherited this way.
- From geography — 100%
- Estimated from other people in their postcode or region.
Coverage, in context
Where 81.1% sits on the catalog’s own coverage range.
Higher coverage than 9% of postcode-level attributes in the catalog
Freshness
How recently this was collected, and how often a new collection arrives. Each bar is the number of postcodes in that collection. Gaps are real — collection is periodic, not continuous.
Contribution ledger
1 ingestion
1 authority contributed since Dec 2024.
| Observed | Ingested | Count | ID |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-12-31 | 2026-09-16 | 41,117 | e2d21660… |
Technical details
- API name
- violent_crime_rate
- Category
- fig/society
- Type · unit
- Float · per_100k
- Statistical type
- ratio
- Allowed values
- null
- Derivations
- null
- Directionality
- Higher number means more violent crime in the surrounding postcode.
- Deprecation
- false
In a payload
{
"attributes": {
"violent_crime_rate": 118
}
}