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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Police.uk records 1,179 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of E14 8GB in August 2026, the latest month it has published.
Also: theft from the person 58, vehicle crime 55, bicycle theft 42, drugs 41, robbery 27, other crime 9, criminal damage and arson 5, possession of weapons 4.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 1,100 September 2025
- 1,153 October 2025
- 1,072 November 2025
- 966 December 2025
- 943 January 2026
- 973 February 2026
- 1,095 March 2026
- 1,106 April 2026
- 1,264 May 2026
- 1,101 June 2026
- 1,274 July 2026
- 1,179 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: theft from the person 609, criminal damage and arson 394, robbery 333, bicycle theft 235, other crime 111, possession of weapons 73.
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.
Your local policing team on Police.ukHow 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.
Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026.
Where the facts on this page come from
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
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