The MEN have brought out a nice tool that allows you to compare crime in your postcode area to the rest of the country – you can try it here.

Here are a few examples:

The Pendlebury Road area in Gatley

Crime in Pendlebury Road area

Oak Road area in Cheadle

Crime in Oak Road area

Foxland/Delamere/Torkington area in Gatley

Crime in Foxland/Delamere/Torkington area, Gatley

Wensley Road area in Cheadle

Crime in Wensley Road area, Cheadle

What are the areas?

When you get crime figures like this, it’s not the figures for your road but for the area around it. It’s based on something called a Local layer Super Output Area – which is used by Government statisticians.

Say you want to know what the Pendlebury Road area covers – that’s given on the MEN website as “Stockport 025C”. So you can Google “Stockport 025C lsoa” and there’s a site called doogal.co.uk which will show you a map that looks something like this.