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 965 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of N22 6SZ in August 2026, the latest month it has published.
Also: drugs 34, burglary 32, theft from the person 31, robbery 21, bicycle theft 11, other crime 10, possession of weapons 7, criminal damage and arson 1.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 924 September 2025
- 1,028 October 2025
- 1,041 November 2025
- 844 December 2025
- 780 January 2026
- 830 February 2026
- 932 March 2026
- 893 April 2026
- 946 May 2026
- 964 June 2026
- 1,014 July 2026
- 965 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: robbery 381, burglary 344, criminal damage and arson 289, other crime 87, bicycle theft 76, possession of weapons 70.
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.
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 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.
Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 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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