What's actually happening at the address, not a generic postcode summary.
Crime trends and planning constraints, pulled for the specific property you're looking at - including Scotland, handled through its own separate data source rather than papered over with an England-only figure.
What it does
Named, real sources - not "our data"
Police.uk for crime, planning.data.gov.uk for constraints, HM Land Registry for price trends - official government sources, named explicitly, not a vague "our data" with nothing behind it.
Crime data, rated per resident
Not a raw incident count, which means nothing without context - a rate per 1,000 residents per year, so a busy area isn’t unfairly flagged just for having more people in it.
A genuinely separate path for Scotland
Scottish crime statistics are published differently and at a different geographic level - handled through their own dedicated lookup, rather than an England-and-Wales figure quietly applied where it doesn’t belong.
Planning constraints for the actual address
Conservation areas, listed building status, and other constraints that affect what you can and can’t do with a property - checked before you buy, not discovered afterward.
Live, not archived
Pulled from the real government source at the moment you check - the reporting month and dataset date are shown, not a static figure frozen whenever a page was last written.
How it works
Enter a postcode
Any UK postcode, as part of analysing a property or just checking an area on its own.
The right data source is selected automatically
England and Wales crime data, or Scotland’s separate statistics, depending on where the address actually is - not guessed at or defaulted.
Figures are pulled and rated
Raw data is converted into a rate per resident, so it’s genuinely comparable between different areas rather than just a bigger or smaller raw number.
Shown alongside the property
Area data sits next to the financial analysis for the same property, rather than in a separate tool you’d have to check independently.
Why it matters
A number with no source is just a guess with confidence
Plenty of property tools fill gaps with made-up averages that look authoritative. Naming the actual source means you can go check it yourself, which is the entire point of trusting a figure at all.
A good yield in a declining area is still a risk
Financial returns alone don’t tell you whether an area is one you’d want to be invested in for the next ten years - crime trends are part of that picture, not a side note.
Planning constraints can block exactly what you’re planning
Finding out a property sits in a conservation area after you’ve bought it - when you were planning to extend or convert it - is an expensive way to learn something checkable in advance.
A single UK-wide figure is actively misleading for Scotland
Scotland’s data is genuinely different in structure and source - treating it as an England-and-Wales figure with the serial numbers filed off produces a number that looks plausible and is wrong.
Check an address you're actually considering and see what the real data says about it.