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 BB2 3SQ

Police.uk records 647 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of BB2 3SQ in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences246 reports
Anti-social behaviour123 reports
Public order73 reports
Criminal damage and arson45 reports
Shoplifting45 reports
Other theft30 reports

Also: drugs 25, vehicle crime 21, other crime 11, burglary 10, robbery 8, possession of weapons 8, theft from the person 2.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 640 September 2025
  2. 684 October 2025
  3. 621 November 2025
  4. 600 December 2025
  5. 545 January 2026
  6. 519 February 2026
  7. 630 March 2026
  8. 589 April 2026
  9. 650 May 2026
  10. 615 June 2026
  11. 680 July 2026
  12. 647 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,804 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,491 reports
Shoplifting588 reports
Public order580 reports
Criminal damage and arson515 reports
Other theft392 reports
Drugs280 reports
Vehicle crime239 reports

Also: other crime 181, burglary 145, possession of weapons 85, robbery 65, theft from the person 31, bicycle theft 24.

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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