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 6HP

Police.uk records 420 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of BB2 6HP in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences159 reports
Anti-social behaviour82 reports
Public order44 reports
Criminal damage and arson29 reports
Vehicle crime23 reports
Shoplifting20 reports

Also: other theft 16, drugs 15, other crime 13, possession of weapons 7, robbery 6, burglary 5, bicycle theft 1.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 444 September 2025
  2. 471 October 2025
  3. 420 November 2025
  4. 382 December 2025
  5. 332 January 2026
  6. 298 February 2026
  7. 433 March 2026
  8. 409 April 2026
  9. 411 May 2026
  10. 434 June 2026
  11. 467 July 2026
  12. 420 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences1,807 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,133 reports
Public order368 reports
Criminal damage and arson327 reports
Other theft264 reports
Shoplifting262 reports
Drugs207 reports
Vehicle crime196 reports

Also: other crime 118, burglary 93, possession of weapons 53, robbery 50, theft from the person 24, bicycle theft 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 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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