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 1,260 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of PO5 1QZ in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences434 reports
Anti-social behaviour173 reports
Shoplifting146 reports
Public order132 reports
Drugs75 reports
Other theft72 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 1,078 September 2025
  2. 1,041 October 2025
  3. 943 November 2025
  4. 929 December 2025
  5. 946 January 2026
  6. 911 February 2026
  7. 990 March 2026
  8. 921 April 2026
  9. 1,208 May 2026
  10. 1,127 June 2026
  11. 1,239 July 2026
  12. 1,260 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences4,647 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,578 reports
Shoplifting1,381 reports
Public order1,058 reports
Other theft762 reports
Criminal damage and arson700 reports
Drugs612 reports
Vehicle crime604 reports

Also: burglary 285, bicycle theft 248, robbery 241, possession of weapons 204, other crime 168, theft from the person 105.

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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