The Office for National Statistics are back again with a new pool of data, this time analysing the number of crimes in an area and deciding where the most dangerous places to live in the UK are.
There are 42 areas on the list, with 42 being the least dangerous and one being the most, but the top 10 may surprise you.
North Wales, Kent, Gwent, Humberside and South Yorkshire make up numbers 10 to six in chronological order, with the latter – which includes Doncaster, Sheffield, Rotherham and Barnsley – experiencing 111.3 crimes a year per 1,000 people.
Merseyside, the North West area that encompasses Liverpool, lands at number five and Birmingham’s West Midlands claims fourth place 126.4 crimes per 1,000 people.
Bronze and silver place are awarded to Greater Manchester and West Yorkshire, with the number one spot perhaps coming as a shock.
It goes to Cleveland, a county in the North of England that incorporates areas of Yorkshire and Durham, the areas has some staggering statistics around crime.
Reportedly there were 29,730 total cases of “violence against the person”, 2,123 drug offences, 10,650 cases of criminal damage and 2,625 sexual offences in the year ending September 2022.
Interestingly, no borough in London made it into the top 10 due to the sheer number of pouplation, with the city seeing 96.6 crimes per 1000 people.
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