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 SO14 5GB

Police.uk records 1,030 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of SO14 5GB in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences366 reports
Shoplifting169 reports
Anti-social behaviour159 reports
Public order83 reports
Criminal damage and arson69 reports
Other theft56 reports

Also: drugs 36, vehicle crime 24, robbery 15, burglary 14, theft from the person 12, other crime 12, possession of weapons 8, bicycle theft 7.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 754 September 2025
  2. 788 October 2025
  3. 693 November 2025
  4. 684 December 2025
  5. 741 January 2026
  6. 699 February 2026
  7. 702 March 2026
  8. 754 April 2026
  9. 892 May 2026
  10. 899 June 2026
  11. 960 July 2026
  12. 1,030 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences3,333 reports
Shoplifting1,522 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,085 reports
Public order770 reports
Other theft609 reports
Drugs597 reports
Criminal damage and arson524 reports
Vehicle crime311 reports

Also: burglary 233, robbery 158, bicycle theft 132, theft from the person 117, other crime 107, possession of weapons 98.

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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