UK's Burglary Hotspots Announced
Posted: 3rd February 2014
Money Supermarket have announced the top 20 UK postcodes where the most claims have been made to insurance companies due to burglary. The figures were collected from 3.1 million home insurance quotes made on moneysupermarket.com website during the last year, where previous claims for burglaries are required. Cholton in Manchester tops the list with the M21 postcode area having made 45.2 claims for burglary per 1000 people but London grabs attention with over half of the list being filled with London postcode areas.
| Position | Postcode | Areas Covered | Previous Claims per 1000 people |
| 1 | M21 | Chorlton-cum-Hardy Barlow Moor |
45.2 |
| 2 | SE24 | Herne Hill Tulse Hill |
41.8 |
| 3 | N10 | Muswell Hill | 40.9 |
| 4 | RM8 | Dagenham Becontree Becontree Heath |
35.9 |
| 5 | N2 | East Finchley Fortis Green Hampstead Garden Suburb |
34.5 |
| 6 | L18 | Allerton Mossley Hill |
33.3 |
| 7 | L22 | Waterloo | 32.6 |
| 8 | N18 | Upper Edmonton Edmonton |
32.3 |
| 9 | UB6 | Greenford Perivale |
30.9 |
| 10 | SE27 | West Norwood Gipsy Hill |
30.5 |
| 11 | B73 | Boldmere New Oscott Wylde Green |
29.5 |
| 12 | E8 | Hackney Central Dalston London Fields |
29.4 |
| 13 | DN2 | Intake Wheatley Wheatley Hills |
28.7 |
| 14 | N20 | Whetstone Totteridge Oakleigh Park |
28.0 |
| 15 | E9 | Homerton Hackney Wick South Hackney Hackney Marshes Victoria Park |
27.8 |
| 16 | N11 | New Southgate Friern Barnet Bounds Green Arnos Grove |
27.7 |
| 17 | N16 | Stoke Newington Stamford Hill Shacklewell Dalston Newington Green |
27.7 |
| 18 | LS16 | Adel Cookridge Eccup Far Headingley Holt Park Ireland Wood Lawnswood Moor Grange Tinshill Weetwood West Park |
27.6 |
| 19 | B24 | Erdington Tyburn |
27.6 |
| 20 | HP10 | High Wycombe Flackwell Heath Handy Cross Hedsor Loudwater Penn Tylers Green Wooburn Wooburn Green Wooburn Moor |
27.3 |
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