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 E2 8WU

Police.uk records 2,083 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of E2 8WU in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Anti-social behaviour456 reports
Violence and sexual offences434 reports
Shoplifting307 reports
Other theft157 reports
Public order146 reports
Theft from the person137 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 1,990 September 2025
  2. 1,884 October 2025
  3. 1,859 November 2025
  4. 1,802 December 2025
  5. 1,573 January 2026
  6. 1,480 February 2026
  7. 1,759 March 2026
  8. 1,751 April 2026
  9. 2,035 May 2026
  10. 2,017 June 2026
  11. 2,083 July 2026
  12. 2,083 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences5,305 reports
Anti-social behaviour4,432 reports
Theft from the person1,898 reports
Shoplifting1,879 reports
Other theft1,860 reports
Public order1,323 reports
Drugs1,207 reports
Burglary1,076 reports

Also: vehicle crime 876, bicycle theft 876, robbery 681, criminal damage and arson 589, possession of weapons 158, other crime 156.

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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