Official statistics · 3 of 6 measures compare directly
Ards and North Down and Buckinghamshire compared
Every measure Civometry publishes for both areas, side by side. Each figure is its publisher’s own for the period named beside it, and the difference between the two is stated in the middle. Neither area is called better: which direction counts as better depends on what you are asking, and the page does not decide that for you. Where the two figures are not comparable — a different period, or nothing published for one side — the row says so instead of showing a difference.
Ards and North Down
N09000011 · Northern Ireland
Buckinghamshire
E06000060 · Thames Valley Police
Getting better or worse
−1
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
3 more in Ards and North Down
−4
Civometry calculation on Home Office, ONS, HM Land Registry and MHCLG figures
Population
No published figure
NISRA: Mid-year population estimates for Northern Ireland, administrative area totals
No published figure for Ards and North Down.
584,296
ONS: Population estimates for the UK and constituent countries: historical time series
Average house price
£227,275
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
£263,233 more in Buckinghamshire
£490,508
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
All claimants
2.4%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
0.6 percentage points higher in Buckinghamshire
3.0%
ONS: Claimant count by sex and age (Nomis)
All recorded crime
34
Police Service of Northern Ireland: Police Recorded Crime in Northern Ireland: annual tables
Not published for Buckinghamshire.
Not published for this area
House price to pay ratio
No published figure
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
No published figure for Ards and North Down.
11.3 years
HM Land Registry: UK House Price Index: average prices
In one sentence
In the latest published figures, average house price was £227,275 in Ards and North Down and £490,508 in Buckinghamshire (June 2026); and all claimants was 2.4% in Ards and North Down and 3.0% in Buckinghamshire (July 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
In the latest published figures, average house price was £227,275 in Ards and North Down and £490,508 in Buckinghamshire (June 2026); and all claimants was 2.4% in Ards and North Down and 3.0% in Buckinghamshire (July 2026). (Civometry, from official statistics; each figure is the publisher's own.)
Recorded crime by category
A category-by-category crime comparison needs both areas to have a full, current twelve months in the data.police.uk archive. One of them does not, so it is not shown; the crime rate above, where published, still comes from that archive.
What this comparison rests on
Two figures are only subtracted when they are the same measure over the same period. Populations differ (— and 584,296 residents on the latest estimates used here), so counts are shown alongside rates rather than instead of them. Nothing on this page is weighted, indexed or scored: every difference is one published number minus another, and the rows that cannot be compared say why.