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 LN1 1QN

Police.uk records 722 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of LN1 1QN in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences199 reports
Anti-social behaviour188 reports
Shoplifting107 reports
Public order66 reports
Criminal damage and arson26 reports
Other theft26 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 515 September 2025
  2. 562 October 2025
  3. 544 November 2025
  4. 521 December 2025
  5. 492 January 2026
  6. 516 February 2026
  7. 652 March 2026
  8. 553 April 2026
  9. 607 May 2026
  10. 596 June 2026
  11. 713 July 2026
  12. 722 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,180 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,814 reports
Shoplifting1,009 reports
Public order523 reports
Criminal damage and arson358 reports
Other theft304 reports
Bicycle theft167 reports
Burglary128 reports

Also: drugs 124, vehicle crime 122, robbery 108, other crime 74, possession of weapons 61, theft from the person 21.

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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