# Where bikes get stolen

> Twelve months of reported bicycle theft, every one of them placed.

- Category: Crime
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `bike-theft-points`
- Source: [Police.uk](https://data.police.uk/)
- Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 — [terms](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Canonical page: [https://londongraph.com/g/where-bikes-get-stolen](https://londongraph.com/g/where-bikes-get-stolen)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/where-bikes-get-stolen](https://londongraph.com/data/where-bikes-get-stolen)

## Methodology

Every reported bicycle theft in Greater London over the last twelve published months. Police.uk snaps each crime to an anonymised map point rather than the exact address, so a cluster is a real cluster but a single dot is a neighbourhood, not a bike rack. The seasonal graph counted these same records and threw the coordinates away.

## Visualisations

- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/where-bikes-get-stolen): Twelve months of reported bicycle theft, every one of them placed.
- [Hotspots](https://londongraph.com/g/where-bikes-get-stolen?view=hotspots): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Breakdown](https://londongraph.com/g/where-bikes-get-stolen?view=breakdown): Summarise the categories represented by the mapped records without loading every coordinate.

## Citation guidance

Attribute the original publisher named above and identify LondonGraph as the visualisation and methodology layer. Do not describe live values as a historical census, and do not present placeholder values as observations.