West Midlands Police gave the cash to a software developer for its MyNeighbourhood project.
The force covers an area of 2.6 million people – but just 4,698 people visited in October, the last month for which full figures are available. A similar number of visitors went to the site in previous months.
The figures were uncovered by a member of the public using the Freedom of Information Act and posted on the What Do They Know? website.
