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 DE23 8ER

Police.uk records 1,251 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of DE23 8ER in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences468 reports
Anti-social behaviour212 reports
Public order146 reports
Shoplifting97 reports
Other theft77 reports
Drugs75 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 1,130 September 2025
  2. 1,129 October 2025
  3. 1,154 November 2025
  4. 1,108 December 2025
  5. 1,035 January 2026
  6. 1,037 February 2026
  7. 1,253 March 2026
  8. 1,220 April 2026
  9. 1,243 May 2026
  10. 1,249 June 2026
  11. 1,184 July 2026
  12. 1,251 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences5,275 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,868 reports
Public order1,377 reports
Drugs1,205 reports
Shoplifting1,115 reports
Other theft844 reports
Criminal damage and arson738 reports
Vehicle crime319 reports

Also: burglary 299, other crime 245, robbery 209, possession of weapons 206, theft from the person 172, bicycle theft 121.

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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