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 1,166 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of S11 8JG in August 2026, the latest month it has published.
Also: criminal damage and arson 45, robbery 35, vehicle crime 30, drugs 26, bicycle theft 23, theft from the person 16, possession of weapons 11, other crime 9.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 955 September 2025
- 1,132 October 2025
- 989 November 2025
- 895 December 2025
- 852 January 2026
- 856 February 2026
- 924 March 2026
- 883 April 2026
- 890 May 2026
- 875 June 2026
- 1,091 July 2026
- 1,166 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: drugs 433, theft from the person 244, robbery 207, bicycle theft 168, other crime 130, possession of weapons 124.
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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