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 549 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of GL51 8LY in January 2026, the latest month Gloucestershire Constabulary has published.
Gloucestershire Constabulary has published no figures to Police.uk after January 2026, though Police.uk has figures to August 2026 for other forces. These figures run to January 2026, so no month is counted without them.
Each month, February 2025 to January 2026
- 522 February 2025
- 666 March 2025
- 649 April 2025
- 602 May 2025
- 598 June 2025
- 622 July 2025
- 660 August 2025
- 639 September 2025
- 624 October 2025
- 588 November 2025
- 599 December 2025
- 549 January 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 134, other crime 131, bicycle theft 127, robbery 72, theft from the person 40, possession of weapons 39.
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.
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 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.
Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to January 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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