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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Your answer for B21 9DZ

Police.uk records 784 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of B21 9DZ in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences398 reports
Criminal damage and arson77 reports
Vehicle crime54 reports
Public order49 reports
Other theft42 reports
Anti-social behaviour33 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 713 September 2025
  2. 782 October 2025
  3. 731 November 2025
  4. 747 December 2025
  5. 647 January 2026
  6. 667 February 2026
  7. 732 March 2026
  8. 766 April 2026
  9. 873 May 2026
  10. 839 June 2026
  11. 925 July 2026
  12. 784 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences4,463 reports
Vehicle crime736 reports
Criminal damage and arson680 reports
Other theft536 reports
Public order506 reports
Burglary409 reports
Drugs409 reports
Possession of weapons293 reports

Also: anti-social behaviour 289, robbery 267, shoplifting 258, other crime 169, theft from the person 157, bicycle theft 34.

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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