I’ve had this bookmarked for a while, but haven’t gotten around to mentioning it. Citizen Vancouver has some cool heat maps of auto theft and burglary in Vancouver:
Ironically, the two maps, if overlayed, don’t match up. Could it be that car theft occurs where the well-to-do’ers live, while the residential B&E’s are in the ‘hoods where elderly middle income residents reside (with kerrisdale as the exception – they’re just rich old folk that live there)? And can we superimpose the skytrain and transit routes and create another correlation (Joyce station, Broadway station)?
Hang on, I can do that (click for a slightly larger version):
I just eyeballed the SkyTrain line, but that gives a general sense of where the most common crimes occur in Vancouver. Looks like south Cambie and Kerrisdale are the safest places to live.
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Looks like south Cambie and Kerrisdale are the safest places to live.
Tell that to the a-hole that stole my wife’s car from 49th and Arbutus on Boxing Day last year!
When I lived in Kerrisdale, somebody broke into my then 10-year-old Toyota. They went past the Lexus, BMW, Audi, Mercedes, etc. Picked on poor me!
Very cool to see this map. I think it would make more sense to emphasize the skytrain stops, rather then the route. The specific locations at the stops are where the people are walking about.
Wow, looks like the epicentre is right around my Commercial Drive home.
I suppose YOU are going to come and rock me to sleep tonight?
It would be interesting to compare how the population density compares to the crime rates.