Pyramids of crime and desperate houselives:Choosing the right data visualisation for the right

audience.By Polly Jackson and Sonia Bargh

Who we are

• Cambridgeshire County Council

• Researchers

• Lots of topics covered

• Work in partnership

• All our work is on Cambridgeshire Insight

• We data

Explaining data

112 pages!

Audience

• Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner

• Community Safety Partnerships (CSPs)

• Elected officials

• Data analysts/ researchers

• Individuals

Why the pyramids of crime

• An offender profile

• A victim profile

• For each district

• By age groups

Pyramids of crime

Who used it…

37% are repeat visitors

Strategic assessments for each CSP in Cambridgeshire

Partners from the CSP

Officers within the County Council are using it for their research

Cambridgeshire Insight

Desperate houselives - overview

• Welfare reforms since 2010, specifically changes to housing benefit

• Local impacts of these changes

Details

• Cutting the local housing allowance (LHA) for each broad rental market area (BRMA) from the median rent to the 30th percentile

• Uprating the local housing allowance rate in line with the Consumer Prices Index (measure of inflation which does NOT include housing costs). In 2012, this change to uprating the benefit by 1% per year until 2016 (rents currently increasing by around 2% per year).

Simple questions

• Where in the sub-region can low income households afford to live?

• Where will they be able to afford to live in the future?

• Cambridgeshire Atlas | Local Housing Allowance

Rent per week

Hours per week at national minimum wage

Does the full housing benefit amount cover the full market rent?

Will the full housing benefit amount cover the full market rent in 2016?

The right visualisation for the right audience

• A – Ask the right questions

• B – Be your audience

• C – Communicate

Visualise once, use many times.

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