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Crime where you live
Last updated . Figures refresh every night. How each figure is worked out.
In the 12 months to June 2026, police forces recorded 82.4 crimes per 1,000 residents in England and 81.3 in Wales, excluding anti-social behaviour. Northern Ireland’s police record crime under the same rules, and are on the same scale. Scotland counts crime under its own rules and in its own groups, so its figures are not comparable with England’s and Wales’s: Scotland 56.9 (total crimes recorded (groups 1 to 5) per 1,000 residents, April 2025 to March 2026). The map goes from each police force area down to small areas of about 1,500 people, with every figure a rate per resident, from police.uk's own records.
Key figures
- 82.4Crimes per 1,000 residents, England
- 81.3Crimes per 1,000 residents, Wales
- 15.4Anti-social behaviour incidents per 1,000, England
- 35,672Small areas (LSOAs) mapped, each about 1,500 people
How much crime is recorded in each area?
Showing police force areas
The map loads as it scrolls into view. Every figure is also in the table below.
Recorded crime per 1,000 residents
Each nation is shaded against its own measure, on its own scale. The nations publish different figures, so colours cannot be compared across them.
England, Wales and Northern Ireland: Recorded crime per 1,000 residents, 12 months to June 2026; Northern Ireland September 2025 to August 2026
- Up to 64.0
- 64.0 to 72.6
- 72.6 to 76.4
- 76.4 to 95.1
- Over 95.1
England, forces with a full year: 82.4 · Wales, forces with a full year: 81.3 · Northern Ireland: 48.9
Scotland: Total crimes recorded (groups 1 to 5) per 1,000 residents, April 2025 to March 2026
- One area: its own figure, with nothing else in Scotland to shade it against
Scotland: 56.9
- No data
- Incomplete: months missing
- Not published
A higher figure is worse.
With a keyboard: tab to the map, then use the arrow keys to move between areas, Enter to pick one or look inside it, Escape to go back to the wider view, and + or − to zoom.
Pick an area, then “Look inside” to see the areas within it: police force area, council, neighbourhood (MSOA) and small area (LSOA). Zooming in far enough over an area does the same. Pinch or use + and − to zoom; on a phone the page scrolls normally until you zoom in.
What is every police force area’s rate?
| Police force area | Nation | All crime | Violence | Burglary | ASB | Vehicle | Damage | Stop and search |
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London, City ofDetails for London, City of | England | 686.7 | 108.7 | 32.0 | 14.6 | 11.9 | 21.9 | 109.1 |
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ClevelandDetails for Cleveland | England | 129.0 | 50.8 | 6.2 | 25.7 | 5.9 | 15.3 | Incomplete: months missing |
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West YorkshireDetails for West Yorkshire | England | 109.2 | 49.8 | 5.7 | 11.7 | 6.5 | 8.7 | 8.3 |
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Greater ManchesterDetails for Greater Manchester | England | 103.7 (Home Office) | 46.0 (Home Office) | 3.8 (Home Office) | Not published | 5.4 (Home Office) | 8.4 (Home Office) | Not published |
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South YorkshireDetails for South Yorkshire | England | 102.7 | 42.6 | 5.5 | 18.8 | 7.0 | 10.0 | 8.5 |
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West MidlandsDetails for West Midlands | England | 100.8 | 44.4 | 4.7 | 4.6 | 9.0 | 8.4 | 9.9 |
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Metropolitan PoliceDetails for Metropolitan Police | England | 98.0 | 30.6 | 5.2 | 26.0 | 9.0 | 5.0 | Incomplete: months missing |
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GwentDetails for Gwent | Wales | 97.3 | 42.9 | 4.1 | 21.0 | 5.2 | 11.5 | Not published |
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DurhamDetails for Durham | England | 95.1 | 39.9 | 4.5 | 23.6 | 4.0 | 13.9 | 4.3 |
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Avon and SomersetDetails for Avon and Somerset | England | 94.9 | 42.4 | 4.2 | 15.3 | 4.7 | 7.8 | 3.7 |
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HumbersideDetails for Humberside | England | 93.6 | 40.8 | 4.6 | 8.0 | 3.7 | 9.1 | 5.7 |
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MerseysideDetails for Merseyside | England | 92.9 | 40.9 | 2.6 | 10.2 | 3.4 | 8.3 | 39.0 |
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NottinghamshireDetails for Nottinghamshire | England | 88.6 | 35.0 | 3.5 | 17.3 | 4.8 | 8.7 | Incomplete: months missing |
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LancashireDetails for Lancashire | England | 83.3 | 40.8 | 3.7 | 24.6 | 4.1 | 8.2 | 20.0 |
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NorthumbriaDetails for Northumbria | England | 82.3 | 31.5 | 4.2 | 19.3 | 4.0 | 9.1 | 5.6 |
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South WalesDetails for South Wales | Wales | 80.8 | 35.2 | 2.2 | 11.4 | 4.5 | 7.0 | Incomplete: months missing |
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DerbyshireDetails for Derbyshire | England | 80.6 | 39.1 | 2.8 | 12.9 | 3.4 | 6.5 | 5.5 |
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StaffordshireDetails for Staffordshire | England | 76.4 | 36.9 | 3.1 | 14.1 | 3.9 | 6.4 | 5.9 |
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EssexDetails for Essex | England | 76.2 | 34.8 | 2.8 | 8.9 | 5.4 | 6.5 | 7.2 |
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LeicestershireDetails for Leicestershire | England | 75.8 | 31.5 | 3.7 | 11.9 | 4.5 | 8.1 | 4.1 |
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CambridgeshireDetails for Cambridgeshire | England | 75.6 | 32.4 | 3.4 | 15.4 | 4.1 | 7.0 | Incomplete: months missing |
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SussexDetails for Sussex | England | 75.2 | 30.2 | 2.4 | 18.8 | 2.9 | 6.8 | 3.8 |
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Dyfed-PowysDetails for Dyfed-Powys | Wales | 74.4 | 39.3 | 2.7 | 13.7 | 1.5 | 8.2 | Incomplete: months missing |
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KentDetails for Kent | England | 74.4 | 32.9 | 2.3 | 17.8 | 3.8 | 8.4 | 9.8 |
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North WalesDetails for North Wales | Wales | 73.8 | 37.4 | 2.4 | 18.6 | 1.7 | 7.6 | 6.0 |
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CumbriaDetails for Cumbria | England | 72.6 | 36.0 | 2.1 | 4.1 | 1.5 | 7.6 | 15.2 |
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HampshireDetails for Hampshire | England | 71.0 | 34.9 | 2.5 | 9.1 | 3.2 | 5.4 | 7.6 |
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NorthamptonshireDetails for Northamptonshire | England | 70.4 | 31.7 | 3.4 | 20.7 | 4.7 | 5.6 | 4.1 |
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HertfordshireDetails for Hertfordshire | England | 69.9 | 29.9 | 3.0 | 17.6 | 4.9 | 5.6 | 6.3 |
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LincolnshireDetails for Lincolnshire | England | 69.7 | 32.8 | 3.1 | 20.8 | 2.8 | 6.8 | Incomplete: months missing |
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BedfordshireDetails for Bedfordshire | England | 69.3 | 29.1 | 2.6 | 13.1 | 5.6 | 5.7 | Incomplete: months missing |
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Devon & CornwallDetails for Devon & Cornwall | England | 69.2 | 36.0 | 1.9 | 10.4 | 1.9 | 7.3 | 2.9 |
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Thames ValleyDetails for Thames Valley | England | 67.1 | 28.9 | 2.6 | 8.1 | 4.3 | 5.3 | 6.1 |
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CheshireDetails for Cheshire | England | 66.0 | 32.9 | 2.1 | 6.7 | 1.9 | 4.7 | 11.0 |
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WarwickshireDetails for Warwickshire | England | 64.0 | 27.1 | 3.7 | 18.0 | 5.1 | 5.5 | 2.0 |
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West MerciaDetails for West Mercia | England | 63.4 | 30.3 | 3.1 | 10.1 | 2.5 | 5.7 | 2.7 |
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NorfolkDetails for Norfolk | England | 61.7 | 30.0 | 1.9 | 9.4 | 1.5 | 6.4 | Incomplete: months missing |
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SurreyDetails for Surrey | England | 59.9 | 25.2 | 2.4 | 11.4 | 3.4 | 5.4 | 4.9 |
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SuffolkDetails for Suffolk | England | 57.0 | 27.1 | 2.3 | 5.2 | 2.5 | 5.8 | Incomplete: months missing |
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North YorkshireDetails for North Yorkshire | England | 54.4 | 25.9 | 2.3 | 17.8 | 1.8 | 5.5 | Incomplete: months missing |
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WiltshireDetails for Wiltshire | England | 54.4 | 25.9 | 2.1 | 13.2 | 2.4 | 5.5 | 4.1 |
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DorsetDetails for Dorset | England | 51.9 | 23.2 | 2.6 | 18.1 | 3.7 | 5.1 | 2.4 |
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Northern IrelandDetails for Northern Ireland | Northern Ireland | 48.9 | 23.2 | 1.4 | 23.1 | 1.1 | 7.0 | 10.7 |
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GloucestershireDetails for Gloucestershire | England | Incomplete: months missing | Incomplete: months missing | Incomplete: months missing | Incomplete: months missing | Incomplete: months missing | Incomplete: months missing | Incomplete: months missing |
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ScotlandDetails for Scotland | Scotland | 56.9 | 16.6 | 1.3 | 45.4 | 1.2 | 6.3 | 7.4 |
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How are these figures counted?
police.uk publishes every crime and anti-social behaviour incident the forces of England, Wales and Northern Ireland record, month by month. Each is placed at an anonymous point near where it happened, and tagged with the small area (LSOA) it falls in. This map counts those records for July 2025 to June 2026, the latest twelve months every force still publishing has supplied, and divides by the ONS’s estimate of the people living in each area in mid-2024.
- Every level is a sum of small areas. A neighbourhood’s rate is its small areas’ records over their residents; a council’s is its neighbourhoods’; a force area’s is its councils’. Nothing is estimated or spread down from a larger area.
- Rates, never counts. Areas differ in size, so every figure is per 1,000 residents. A rate per resident runs high where few people live but many visit, such as city centres and shopping streets.
- Nothing is suppressed. police.uk protects victims by moving each record to an anonymous point rather than hiding small numbers, so a zero is a real zero.
- How the small areas are named. The ONS numbers neighbourhoods (MSOAs) and small areas (LSOAs) within their council (“Sefton 017”, “Sefton 017C”) and gives them no names. Neighbourhoods here carry the House of Commons Library’s names for them, with the ONS number beside. Small areas have no name from anyone, so each is shown by its neighbourhood’s name and its own number, with the postcode sectors most of its postcodes are in; sectors seldom follow small-area borders, so those are approximate.
- Stop and search is tied to a force but not to a place, so it is shown for each police force area only. Looking inside a force with it chosen keeps the force shaded as one.
Which areas have no figure, and why?
Where a force has not supplied every month, its areas show no rate rather than one that would be too low:
| Force | Months supplied | On the map |
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GloucestershireDetails for Gloucestershire | 7 of 12 | Incomplete |
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Greater ManchesterDetails for Greater Manchester | 0 of 12 | Force-wide figure from the Home Office; smaller areas not published |
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Greater Manchester has published nothing to police.uk since 2019, but still reports its recorded crime to the Home Office, which publishes every force’s figures each quarter. The map uses those for the force as a whole, marked “(Home Office)”: the same crimes, counted under the same rules.
The Home Office figures cover the force and nothing smaller, so Greater Manchester’s councils and neighbourhoods stay “not published”, as does its anti-social behaviour, which they do not count. They run a quarter or two behind police.uk, so the force’s panel on the map says which twelve months it shows.
Scotland
Police Scotland does not publish to police.uk. The Scottish Government publishes crimes recorded by the police in each council area, under the Scottish Crime Recording Standard, grouped its own way. The map shows Scotland’s own figures for April 2025 to March 2026, per 1,000 residents, on a scale of their own: they count different things from police.uk’s, so they are not set against England’s and Wales’s. Its groups:
| Group | What it covers |
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| Total crimes | All crimes recorded by the police in groups 1 to 5 of the Scottish Crime Recording Standard; offences (groups 6 to 8) are counted separately. |
| Non-sexual crimes of violence | Group 1: homicide, serious assault and attempted murder, robbery, common assault, domestic abuse under the 2018 Act and other violence. |
| Sexual crimes | Group 2: rape and attempted rape, sexual assault, and other sexual crimes, including those committed online. |
| Crimes of dishonesty | Group 3: housebreaking, theft, shoplifting, theft of and from motor vehicles, fraud and other dishonesty. |
| Housebreaking | Theft by housebreaking, including attempts and housebreaking with intent, from homes, other buildings and other premises (part of group 3). |
| Theft of a motor vehicle | Theft of a motor vehicle, including attempts (part of group 3). |
| Theft from a motor vehicle | Theft from a motor vehicle, including attempts (part of group 3). |
| Damage and reckless behaviour | Group 4: vandalism, fire-raising and reckless conduct. |
| Vandalism | Wilful or reckless destruction of or damage to property, including malicious mischief (part of group 4). |
| Fire-raising | Wilful or culpable and reckless fire-raising (part of group 4). |
| Crimes against society | Group 5: crimes against public justice, drugs supply and possession, and possessing or using weapons. |
| Total offences | All offences recorded by the police in groups 6 to 8: anti-social, miscellaneous and road traffic offences, which Scotland counts apart from crimes. |
| Antisocial offences | Group 6: threatening and abusive behaviour, hate-aggravated conduct, drunkenness and disorderly conduct, and urinating in public. |
| Miscellaneous offences | Group 7: community and public order, environmental, licensing, wildlife and other offences. |
| Road traffic offences | Group 8: dangerous and careless driving, driving under the influence, speeding, unlawful use of a vehicle and other motoring offences. |
| Anti-social behaviour incidents (public reported) | Incidents the public reported to Police Scotland that were classed as anti-social behaviour, from Police Scotland management information; these are incidents, not crimes. |
| Stop and search | Searches of people not in police custody that Police Scotland officers carried out under a statutory power or a warrant, by the council area where each took place. |
Source: Scottish Government, Recorded Crime in Scotland.
Northern Ireland
The PSNI publishes crimes it records in each of its eleven policing districts, which are the eleven councils, in its own offence groups. The PSNI records crime under the same Home Office Counting Rules as the forces of England and Wales, and police.uk holds the same records (the totals agree to within about 3%) but places none of them in an area. So the map shows the PSNI’s council figures for September 2025 to August 2026 on England’s and Wales’s scale, per 1,000 residents; only stop and search, which the PSNI counts differently, is on a scale of its own. Its groups:
| Group | What it covers |
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| Total police recorded crime | Every crime PSNI recorded under the Home Office Counting Rules; fraud reported to Action Fraud is not included. |
| Violence against the person | Homicide, violence with injury, violence without injury, and stalking and harassment. |
| Sexual offences | Rape and other sexual offences. |
| Robbery | Robbery of personal property and of business property. |
| Theft offences | Burglary, vehicle offences, theft from the person, bicycle theft, shoplifting and all other theft. |
| Burglary | Residential burglary and business and community burglary (part of theft offences). |
| Vehicle offences | Theft of or from a vehicle, aggravated vehicle taking and interfering with a vehicle (part of theft offences). |
| Criminal damage | Criminal damage and arson. |
| Drug offences | Trafficking of controlled drugs and possession of drugs. |
| Possession of weapons offences | Possessing firearms, knives, offensive weapons and other weapons. |
| Public order offences | Offences causing fear, alarm or distress, and other public order offences. |
| Miscellaneous crimes against society | Other crimes against society, such as perverting the course of justice, handling stolen goods and bail offences. |
| Anti-social behaviour incidents | Incidents of anti-social behaviour reported to PSNI, recorded under the National Standard for Incident Recording; these are incidents, not crimes. |
| Persons stopped and searched or questioned | People stopped and searched or questioned by PSNI under any power, including PACE, the Misuse of Drugs Act, the Terrorism Act and the Justice and Security Act. |
Source: Police Service of Northern Ireland, Police recorded crime statistics.
Source: police.uk, archive of July 2026; Greater Manchester: Home Office police recorded crime open data; population: ONS small area population estimates, mid-2024. Both Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2024. Neighbourhood names: House of Commons Library MSOA Names 2.3, Open Parliament Licence. Postcode sectors: ONS postcode lookup.
Common questions
- Why does Greater Manchester have only one figure?
- Greater Manchester Police stopped supplying police.uk in 2019. The Home Office still publishes its recorded crime for the force as a whole, so that is the figure shown, marked “(Home Office)”. The areas inside it are marked “not published”, not zero.
- Why can I not see stop and search for my neighbourhood?
- police.uk ties stop and search to a police force, not to a small area, so it is published for each police force area only. The map keeps the force shaded as one area rather than repeat its figure across the areas inside it.
- Why is the town centre rate so high?
- Rates are per resident. A town or city centre has few residents and many visitors, workers and shops, so crime recorded there is divided by a small number of people.