Overview

CrimeRisk Data

CrimeRisk data is available for major personal and property crime categories such as murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft. In accordance with reporting procedures in the FBI's Uniform Crime Report (UCR), aggregate separate and total personal and property indexes are prepared. Although this information is useful to measure the relative overall crime in an area, these are unweighted indexes; therefore, a murder is weighted in the computation equally to a purse-snatching.

The data is available for a variety of geography levels including national, state, county, census tract, block group, core-based statistical area (CBSA), place, and ZIP Code. Available delivery formats include comma delimited, shapefile, .txt, Excel, dBASE, a CrimeRisk Profile Report, and thematic maps from Business Analyst Online.

Who Uses CrimeRisk Data

• Commercial Real Estate—To assess crime figures for existing and potential sites
• Economic Development—To provide accurate information to prospective businesses
• Financial Services—To research suitability of bank locations by area
• Government—To study law enforcement coverage in relation to crime by area
• Insurance—To assess risk by property and business type
• Retail—To determine if current security measures are sufficient by store