Estate agents and rental portals
Surface crime stats on every listing — pre-empts the most common buyer enquiry and demonstrates transparency. The ranked bars are visually distinctive at the bottom of a property card.
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Crime · drop-in widget
Crime nearby,
Crime nearby,
in a card.
Recent month's crime stats for any UK postcode — total + breakdown by category, sourced from police.uk. Drop in two lines of HTML.
police.uk
Live data
1 km
Radius
~3kb
gzipped JS
Live demo · Westminster · Buckingham Palace
Two lines.
Pass a postcode, the widget pulls the latest month from police.uk and renders.
your-page.html
html
<div data-homedata-crime
data-postcode="SW1A 1AA"></div>
<script src="https://homedata.co.uk/js/homedata-crime.js"
data-key="wt_your_public_key_here"
defer></script>Configuration
| Attribute | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| data-postcode | Required | UK postcode. Spaces are stripped before the API call. |
| data-max-categories | Optional | Number of crime types to show (default 5). |
| data-theme | Optional | light (default) or dark. |
| data-no-branding | Optional · paid tier | Hide the "Powered by Homedata" footer. |
Neighbourhood safety, answered on the listing
"What's the crime like round here?" is a top-three question for UK buyers and renters. The crime stats widget answers it on the page, with official data, in seconds.
Relocation services
Help clients compare neighbourhoods at a glance. The crime widget on a comparison view shows the difference between postcodes in concrete numbers.
Build-to-rent and student housing
Risk-aware buyers and tenants want to see crime stats up front. Display them with the brand-locked widget on every scheme page.
How the data works
All counts come from data.police.uk, the official Home Office publication of street-level crime reported by UK territorial police forces. Updated monthly with a typical 2-month lag (March data lands in May).
Categories
Crimes are bucketed into Home Office categories: anti-social behaviour, theft from the person, violence and sexual offences, burglary, vehicle crime, drugs, criminal damage and arson, and others. The widget ranks them by count and shows the top N (configurable, default 5).
Search radius
Approximately 1km from the postcode centroid — the same radius used by data.police.uk's own postcode lookup. Counts reflect all crimes reported within that radius for the latest published month.
Coverage: England, Wales, Northern Ireland. Scotland uses a separate publication via Police Scotland which is not currently in the dataset.
Frequently asked
What crime data does the widget show? ▾
Total crime count for the most recent month plus a ranked breakdown by Home Office category. Each category is shown as a horizontal bar scaled to the highest count, with the absolute number alongside. Data comes from UK territorial police forces via the Home Office data.police.uk publication.
How recent is the data? ▾
data.police.uk publishes monthly with a typical lag of 2 months. For example, March 2026 data is published mid-May 2026. The widget always shows the most recent published month, with the month label shown under the total.
Is it legal to display street-level crime data on property listings? ▾
Yes. data.police.uk is published under the Open Government Licence v3 and is explicitly intended for public reuse — including on commercial property platforms. Many UK estate agent and rental sites already surface it. The data is anonymised and aggregated, never tied to an individual property or person.
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Free tier includes 100 calls/month. Paid plans start at £49/mo for 2,000.