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 234 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of LN5 8RS in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences76 reports
Anti-social behaviour47 reports
Shoplifting33 reports
Criminal damage and arson24 reports
Public order21 reports
Vehicle crime9 reports

Also: other theft 8, bicycle theft 6, burglary 4, drugs 2, other crime 2, robbery 1, possession of weapons 1.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 165 September 2025
  2. 184 October 2025
  3. 187 November 2025
  4. 226 December 2025
  5. 184 January 2026
  6. 139 February 2026
  7. 202 March 2026
  8. 186 April 2026
  9. 178 May 2026
  10. 219 June 2026
  11. 224 July 2026
  12. 234 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences838 reports
Anti-social behaviour459 reports
Shoplifting306 reports
Criminal damage and arson180 reports
Public order127 reports
Other theft93 reports
Vehicle crime87 reports
Burglary76 reports

Also: other crime 44, drugs 35, bicycle theft 30, robbery 29, possession of weapons 22, theft from the person 2.

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.

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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 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.

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Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026.

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