Crime by postcode

Enter a postcode in England or Wales to see the crimes Police.uk records within a mile of it: the latest month by kind, and each of the last 12 months. Counts, not ratings.

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Example: what you get for PE29 3BU

Police.uk records 228 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of PE29 3BU in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences91 reports
Anti-social behaviour42 reports
Public order26 reports
Criminal damage and arson17 reports
Other theft10 reports
Drugs10 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 237 September 2025
  2. 209 October 2025
  3. 191 November 2025
  4. 172 December 2025
  5. 202 January 2026
  6. 206 February 2026
  7. 199 March 2026
  8. 239 April 2026
  9. 219 May 2026
  10. 252 June 2026
  11. 213 July 2026
  12. 228 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences861 reports
Anti-social behaviour567 reports
Shoplifting223 reports
Criminal damage and arson206 reports
Public order152 reports
Other theft117 reports
Drugs117 reports
Other crime68 reports

Also: burglary 59, vehicle crime 55, bicycle theft 55, possession of weapons 44, theft from the person 24, robbery 19.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.

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How we work this out

We use data.police.uk's own monthly download, the police's open data, which police.uk last published on 30 September 2026. We count every crime and report of anti-social behaviour it places within one mile of the postcode's centre point, by the kinds police.uk uses: for the latest month and each of the 12 latest months. The download says which forces published each month, so where the local force has not published police.uk's latest months, we show its own latest 12 and say so, rather than count those months as quiet.

Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none.

We give counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through a circle a mile across, so a figure per 1,000 people would be a guess. And we do not say whether an area is safe: the figures are there to read.

Why are the figures high for a town centre?

A circle a mile across around a town centre takes in its shops, pubs and station, where many crimes are recorded, and the counts are for the circle, not one street. Shoplifting is recorded where the shop is.

Does this cover Scotland?

No. Police Scotland publishes its own figures; police.uk covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and we cover England and Wales of those.

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Source: data.police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

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