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 BB1 6NW

Police.uk records 393 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of BB1 6NW in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences138 reports
Anti-social behaviour74 reports
Criminal damage and arson39 reports
Vehicle crime37 reports
Public order32 reports
Shoplifting20 reports

Also: other theft 14, drugs 13, burglary 7, other crime 7, possession of weapons 6, robbery 3, theft from the person 2, bicycle theft 1.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 336 September 2025
  2. 384 October 2025
  3. 368 November 2025
  4. 320 December 2025
  5. 291 January 2026
  6. 237 February 2026
  7. 347 March 2026
  8. 325 April 2026
  9. 376 May 2026
  10. 345 June 2026
  11. 376 July 2026
  12. 393 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences1,504 reports
Anti-social behaviour835 reports
Public order306 reports
Criminal damage and arson285 reports
Other theft259 reports
Vehicle crime239 reports
Shoplifting208 reports
Drugs192 reports

Also: other crime 85, burglary 83, possession of weapons 44, robbery 24, theft from the person 23, bicycle theft 11.

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 each way 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 two miles across, a mile each way, 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?

The counts cover a circle two miles across, a mile each way from the postcode's centre. Near a town centre that takes in its shops, pubs and station, where many crimes are recorded, and the counts are for the whole 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; this site covers England and Wales.

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Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026.

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