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 SO15 9GQ

Police.uk records 556 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of SO15 9GQ in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences193 reports
Shoplifting87 reports
Anti-social behaviour66 reports
Other theft44 reports
Public order41 reports
Criminal damage and arson35 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 527 September 2025
  2. 482 October 2025
  3. 411 November 2025
  4. 414 December 2025
  5. 383 January 2026
  6. 438 February 2026
  7. 478 March 2026
  8. 551 April 2026
  9. 503 May 2026
  10. 486 June 2026
  11. 497 July 2026
  12. 556 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,080 reports
Shoplifting665 reports
Anti-social behaviour542 reports
Public order492 reports
Criminal damage and arson411 reports
Other theft391 reports
Vehicle crime345 reports
Burglary295 reports

Also: drugs 138, robbery 112, other crime 85, possession of weapons 81, bicycle theft 57, theft from the person 32.

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 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 a mile across, 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?

A circle a mile across around a town centre takes in its shops, pubs and station, where many crimes are recorded, and the counts are for the 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, and we cover England and Wales of those.

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Source: data.police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026. Open Government Licence v3.0. How we use it

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