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 SE17 1QU

Police.uk records 2,247 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of SE17 1QU in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Anti-social behaviour495 reports
Violence and sexual offences429 reports
Theft from the person378 reports
Other theft261 reports
Shoplifting151 reports
Drugs107 reports

Also: public order 99, robbery 93, burglary 80, vehicle crime 75, bicycle theft 45, other crime 13, possession of weapons 11, criminal damage and arson 10.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 2,108 September 2025
  2. 2,149 October 2025
  3. 2,085 November 2025
  4. 1,972 December 2025
  5. 1,892 January 2026
  6. 1,909 February 2026
  7. 2,080 March 2026
  8. 1,990 April 2026
  9. 2,084 May 2026
  10. 2,258 June 2026
  11. 2,448 July 2026
  12. 2,247 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Anti-social behaviour4,960 reports
Violence and sexual offences4,872 reports
Theft from the person4,364 reports
Other theft2,649 reports
Shoplifting1,719 reports
Robbery1,168 reports
Public order1,113 reports
Drugs1,053 reports

Also: burglary 1,047, vehicle crime 794, criminal damage and arson 593, bicycle theft 495, other crime 212, possession of weapons 183.

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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