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 MK40 3PG

Police.uk records 857 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of MK40 3PG in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences226 reports
Shoplifting214 reports
Anti-social behaviour127 reports
Public order74 reports
Other theft44 reports
Criminal damage and arson35 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 594 September 2025
  2. 598 October 2025
  3. 606 November 2025
  4. 524 December 2025
  5. 473 January 2026
  6. 516 February 2026
  7. 632 March 2026
  8. 639 April 2026
  9. 708 May 2026
  10. 730 June 2026
  11. 955 July 2026
  12. 857 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,687 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,053 reports
Shoplifting1,024 reports
Public order618 reports
Other theft479 reports
Criminal damage and arson431 reports
Vehicle crime333 reports
Drugs317 reports

Also: burglary 239, other crime 180, robbery 153, bicycle theft 144, possession of weapons 102, theft from the person 72.

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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