[citrin_ru]

Divided by population one of highest crime rate areas in the UK is Westminster because this are attracts a lot of tourists (some are targeted by pickpockets) but not much people live there (denominator is small). A better metric will be crime count divided by man-hours spent in the area per day. Such data unlikely exists in open access but mobile operators should be able to estimate it based on base station logs.

[pchangr]

I don’t think there’s anything particularly wrong with it. What is it that you think is misleading from this metric?

[citrin_ru]

It's not wrong but what people usually want to know looking at crime stats map is a probability to become a victim if they visit a particular place of will more to live there. Crime count divided by number of residents only relevant for crime targeting residents like home burglaries. For other cases these number can be no-representative.

[kjkjadksj]

It should really be crime count by number of people out and about a day, but you will never have that number without some orwellian citizen surveillance program.