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 CM2 9HZ

Police.uk records 588 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of CM2 9HZ in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences209 reports
Shoplifting95 reports
Anti-social behaviour88 reports
Drugs36 reports
Public order35 reports
Other theft33 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 462 September 2025
  2. 486 October 2025
  3. 419 November 2025
  4. 441 December 2025
  5. 414 January 2026
  6. 372 February 2026
  7. 484 March 2026
  8. 476 April 2026
  9. 484 May 2026
  10. 498 June 2026
  11. 599 July 2026
  12. 588 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,179 reports
Shoplifting827 reports
Anti-social behaviour611 reports
Public order407 reports
Other theft368 reports
Drugs342 reports
Criminal damage and arson311 reports
Vehicle crime173 reports

Also: other crime 123, burglary 106, bicycle theft 74, possession of weapons 71, theft from the person 67, robbery 64.

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

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