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 SE1 8QU

Police.uk records 2,539 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of SE1 8QU in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Theft from the person548 reports
Other theft474 reports
Violence and sexual offences434 reports
Anti-social behaviour397 reports
Shoplifting144 reports
Public order124 reports

Also: robbery 105, burglary 86, drugs 80, bicycle theft 67, vehicle crime 42, possession of weapons 16, other crime 13, criminal damage and arson 9.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 2,784 September 2025
  2. 2,765 October 2025
  3. 2,531 November 2025
  4. 2,548 December 2025
  5. 2,309 January 2026
  6. 2,150 February 2026
  7. 2,361 March 2026
  8. 2,320 April 2026
  9. 2,397 May 2026
  10. 2,577 June 2026
  11. 2,781 July 2026
  12. 2,539 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Theft from the person6,903 reports
Violence and sexual offences5,297 reports
Other theft5,137 reports
Anti-social behaviour4,675 reports
Shoplifting1,550 reports
Public order1,464 reports
Robbery1,236 reports
Drugs891 reports

Also: burglary 851, bicycle theft 657, criminal damage and arson 587, vehicle crime 487, possession of weapons 167, other crime 160.

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.

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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 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.

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Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026.

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