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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Police.uk records 4,150 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of W1G 7EH in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Other theft767 reports
Shoplifting689 reports
Theft from the person670 reports
Violence and sexual offences593 reports
Anti-social behaviour586 reports
Public order175 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 4,686 September 2025
  2. 5,176 October 2025
  3. 6,138 November 2025
  4. 6,069 December 2025
  5. 4,490 January 2026
  6. 4,350 February 2026
  7. 4,283 March 2026
  8. 4,455 April 2026
  9. 4,281 May 2026
  10. 4,291 June 2026
  11. 4,707 July 2026
  12. 4,150 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Theft from the person14,795 reports
Other theft11,238 reports
Violence and sexual offences6,898 reports
Shoplifting6,887 reports
Anti-social behaviour6,500 reports
Public order2,134 reports
Robbery2,048 reports
Drugs1,947 reports

Also: vehicle crime 1,412, burglary 1,371, criminal damage and arson 733, bicycle theft 619, other crime 290, possession of weapons 204.

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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