# Bike theft, mapped & seasonal

> Bike theft has a season, and it is not the one you would guess.

- Category: Crime
- Cadence: monthly
- Status: Published on a monthly cadence.
- Dataset key: `bike-theft`
- 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/bike-theft](https://londongraph.com/g/bike-theft)
- Machine-readable record: [https://londongraph.com/data/bike-theft](https://londongraph.com/data/bike-theft)

## Methodology

Street-level crimes of category bicycle-theft within the Metropolitan and City of London force areas, counted per month.

## Visualisations

- [Trend](https://londongraph.com/g/bike-theft): Bike theft has a season, and it is not the one you would guess.
- [Map](https://londongraph.com/g/bike-theft?view=geography): Compare the same measure geographically.
- [Seasonality](https://londongraph.com/g/bike-theft?view=seasonality): Arrange repeated periods to reveal the calendar pattern.
- [Change](https://londongraph.com/g/bike-theft?view=change): Show the change from each preceding published period.

## 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.