Social housing tenants are nearly twice as likely to be burgled as home owners. The homes of unskilled workers are twice as likely to be burgled as the homes of professional workers. The lowest crime rates are recorded in rural areas mid-Wales and Suffolk. According to police figures there is now twice as much crime as there was ten years ago. For most categories of crime, Afro-caribbean and Asian people are more vulnerable than white Europeans.
Burglary is twice as common as police records show, and violent crime is three times more prevalent.
Crime costs every working person in the U.K. over 10 per week. Car crime currently costs insurance companies over 1 million per day. Compiled by Henry Shaftoe, SNU, 1996.