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 MK42 9DD

Police.uk records 847 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of MK42 9DD in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences238 reports
Shoplifting176 reports
Anti-social behaviour119 reports
Public order70 reports
Other theft51 reports
Criminal damage and arson42 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 635 September 2025
  2. 634 October 2025
  3. 652 November 2025
  4. 513 December 2025
  5. 499 January 2026
  6. 533 February 2026
  7. 659 March 2026
  8. 667 April 2026
  9. 757 May 2026
  10. 716 June 2026
  11. 907 July 2026
  12. 847 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,881 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,035 reports
Shoplifting939 reports
Public order622 reports
Other theft482 reports
Criminal damage and arson458 reports
Vehicle crime357 reports
Drugs342 reports

Also: burglary 234, other crime 214, robbery 140, bicycle theft 127, possession of weapons 115, theft from the person 73.

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: data.police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

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