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More incest in West Yorkshire than rest of England and parts of Wales, according to crime maps

Plus see how the county fared for homicides, blackmail, firearms offences and more

Crime maps of England and Wales ranks West Yorkshire first for incest offences

Crime maps showing which counties are most affected by different crimes have revealed West Yorkshire as the region with the greatest number of incest offences.

The Examiner's Data Unit has created a string of 'crime cartograms' - maps where areas are made bigger or smaller according to how many, or few, of a particular offence they have seen.

They show, at a glance, how our region has a hugely disproportionate problem with incest and other family-related sex crimes compared to other parts of England and Wales.

But some other crimes - like theft of mail - are relatively rare in West Yorkshire.

Scroll down to view the crime maps

Map one : Context

The first map - purely for context - shows a Britain stretched and skewed according to how many people live in each police force area.

How many people live in each police force area

This is how we would expect each individual crime map to look if the specific offence was spread equally across the country.

Map two: Incest

Now let's look at how the map changes when we feed in the figures for incest and familial sexual offences.

Incest and family-related sex offences


Immediately we see how West Yorkshire appears to have rocketed in size.
That is because there were 94 such offences in our region in the 12 months to the end of September - far more than any other part of the country.
The Metropolitan police area, covering London, had just 14.
The place with the second most was actually Kent, with 58.

Map three: Homicide

The number of homicides - murders and manslaughters - was roughly proportionate to the size of population across the country.

Homicide

How many people live in each police force area

Blackmail

Mail theft