Hi everyone. I am a software engineer based in Vancouver, Canada, and I built this as a side project. Every time I looked at homes to buy or rent, the listing told me the price and showed polished photos, but said nothing about the block itself. To answer simple questions I had to jump between police open data, Statistics Canada tables, school district lists, transit maps and Google Maps: How much crime was reported near this address, and is it going up or down? Which school is the catchment school for this address? How long is the real walk to the SkyTrain? What groceries, parks and cafés are actually nearby? So I built AreaReport. You type in an address in Greater Vancouver or the Fraser Valley and get one free report. No account, nothing to install. What is inside each report: Safety: police reported incidents by type, by month and by year, with the change compared with the year before. For Vancouver there is also an incident map with filters by date and type. Schools: catchment schools first, then the closest independent schools, each with a walking time. Transit: walking times to SkyTrain, West Coast Express and bus stops, with route numbers. Everyday places: groceries, parks, cafés, gyms, pharmacies and shops within 800 metres, each with a walking time. For realtors: any report can be exported as a PDF with their photo, name, brokerage and phone on it. Those details are stored only in their own browser. The hardest part was not the interface. It was the data. Every city publishes safety data differently. Vancouver publishes incidents by neighbourhood, and offences against a person come with no location at all. Coquitlam publishes located data for four property crime types only. Most other cities publish whole city totals, so for them the report shows a crime rate per 1000 residents and a rank among the 20 covered cities. I decided to show the level of detail on the report itself instead of pretending every city has block level data. I also decided against a single safety score. A downtown address can show 7,752 reported incidents in its neighbourhood for January to September 2026, and most of that is theft in a busy commercial core. One number would hide all of that context, so the report shows the counts, the trend and the source under every section. Data comes from the Vancouver Police Department, Statistics Canada, the City of Coquitlam, TransLink, DataBC and OpenStreetMap, and reports refresh weekly. It is live and free here: https://safelive.sendmedoc.com Feedback I would genuinely love: Is skipping the single score the right call, or do most people want one simple number anyway? What would you check about an address that the report still does not answer? For anyone outside Canada: does your city publish data like this, and would a version for your area be useful? Thanks for reading, and I will answer every comment.   submitted by   /u/zenderua [link]   [comments]