The top 20 burglary hotspots

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Here are the top 20 postcodes where homeowners are most likely to have claimed on home insurance for burglary, followed by the top 20 least likely.

MoneySupermarket.com analysed 3.49 million applications for home insurance quotes made between December 2011 and the end of November 2012.

They looked at the number of users who said they had made a claim for burglary at their current address in the past two years.

The number of claims made per 1,000 enquiries was then calculated, to allow areas to be compared.

The top 20 most likely ranked by the number of claims per 1,000 enquiries are:

1 LS13 Leeds (34.8)

2 BD12 Bradford (34.2)

3 N12 North Finchley, north London (31.9)

4 M30 Manchester (31.6)

5 RM3 Romford (30.9)

6 SW12 Balham, south London (30.1)

7 LS18 Leeds (29.7)

8 UB3 Hayes, west London (29.5)

9 SE22 East Dulwich, south east London (29.1)

10 LS28 Leeds (28.4)

11 IG2 Ilford, east London (28.1)

12 HU6 Hull (27.8)

13 BD10 Bradford (27.7)

14 BD17 Bradford (27.3)

15 LS25 Leeds (26.9)

16 TW12 Hampton, south west London (26.7)

17 BD18 Bradford (26.2)

18 SW16 Streatham, south London (26.1)

19 LS12 Leeds(26.1)

20 BD6 Bradford (25.3)

These are the 20 least likely. The ranking is correct, but the figures for the first 16 have been rounded to one decimal place, so 0.0 is shown.

1 SA9 Swansea (0.0)

2 SA62 Pembrokeshire(0.0)

3 LA14 Cumbria(0.0)

4 TQ3 Devon (0.0)

5 EX31 Devon(0.0)

6 DD8 Angus (0.0)

7 KY7 Fife (0.0)

8 PL21 Devon(0.0)

9 PL26 Cornwall (0.0)

10 NR29 Norfolk(0.0)

11 AB16 Aberdeen(0.0)

12 NR19 Norfolk (0.0)

13 NR10 Norfolk (0.0)

14 TQ5 Devon (0.0)

15 NE7 Tyne & Wear (0.0)

16 CT21 Kent (0.0)

17 RH20 Sussex (1.6)

18 OX18 Oxfordshire (1.7)

19 NE22 Northumberland (1.8)

20 BA12 Wiltshire (1.9)