Nearly nine out of 10 burglary crimes in England and Wales remain unresolved, with police having solved just 12.2% in the year ending March 2014.
However, where you live makes a massive difference, according to Churchill Insurance, as there is significant variation in the figures between forces.
In Wiltshire, for example, just 8.3 in every 100 burglary crimes was solved, meaning the perpetrator was caught and a formal punishment was issued.
At the other end of the scale more than three times that proportion (28.7%) were solved in Dyfed-Powys police authority, which has the highest solved rate across England and Wales.
Burglary hotspots
For the year ending March 2015, Dyfed-Powys police also had the lowest incidence of burglaries with 2.5 in every 1,000 people falling victim to burglary every year.
This is a marked contrast to Humberside police force authority and West Yorkshire police force authority, where 10.8 in every 1,000 fall victim to this type of crime.
Acrosss England and Wales as a whole, 7.2 people per 1000 of the population fall victim to burglary.
Plus, police presence is far from uniform. Across England and Wales there are 3.78 full-time police officers for every 1,000 people.
However, in Lincolnshire – the police force with the lowest full time presence – there are just 2.09 officers per 1,000 people, while the Metropolitan police force, has over double that at 5.51.
Victoria Hartley is contributing editor at Mortgage Solutions, Specialist Lending Solutions, Your Money and Your Mortgage at London-based publishing company AE3 Media.
She has an MA in Radio from Goldsmiths after gaining a 2:1 in a Comparative American Studies BA at Warwick University. She also holds a TEFL qualification and taught overseas in Mexico and Japan from 1994 to 1997.
Her role includes editorial oversight of the news, analysis and features, event content management and strategic and editorial consultancy for the AE3 Media group. She is an experienced video, broadcast and live-event host and regularly chairs web and podcast debates and interviews.
Multiple award nominations have resulted in two wins: Santander Media Awards, trade journalist of the year and Headlinemoney Awards, mortgage journalist of the year (B2B). Here is one of the award-winning pieces: https://www.mortgagesolutions.co.uk/news/2011/07/21/exclusive-tale-bailey-fraud-witness/
Previous roles include editorships of Mortgage Solutions, consumer title What Mortgage and trade title Credit Today as well as a stint freelancing for a variety of outlets including The Guardian and Which? Money.