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 SE24 9LY

Police.uk records 1,089 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of SE24 9LY in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences255 reports
Anti-social behaviour224 reports
Shoplifting107 reports
Other theft95 reports
Theft from the person80 reports
Vehicle crime70 reports

Also: public order 68, drugs 55, robbery 46, burglary 38, bicycle theft 33, other crime 10, possession of weapons 6, criminal damage and arson 2.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 1,040 September 2025
  2. 897 October 2025
  3. 928 November 2025
  4. 877 December 2025
  5. 845 January 2026
  6. 827 February 2026
  7. 933 March 2026
  8. 954 April 2026
  9. 1,074 May 2026
  10. 1,122 June 2026
  11. 1,210 July 2026
  12. 1,089 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,830 reports
Anti-social behaviour2,305 reports
Theft from the person1,061 reports
Other theft935 reports
Shoplifting833 reports
Vehicle crime730 reports
Public order669 reports
Drugs637 reports

Also: robbery 465, burglary 430, criminal damage and arson 373, bicycle theft 314, possession of weapons 109, other crime 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 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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