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 W1H 5BG

Police.uk records 2,618 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of W1H 5BG in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Shoplifting478 reports
Other theft430 reports
Anti-social behaviour389 reports
Theft from the person381 reports
Violence and sexual offences375 reports
Burglary116 reports

Also: public order 113, vehicle crime 99, robbery 76, drugs 74, bicycle theft 45, other crime 22, possession of weapons 14, criminal damage and arson 6.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 2,763 September 2025
  2. 2,706 October 2025
  3. 3,282 November 2025
  4. 3,660 December 2025
  5. 2,520 January 2026
  6. 2,357 February 2026
  7. 2,468 March 2026
  8. 2,607 April 2026
  9. 2,506 May 2026
  10. 2,685 June 2026
  11. 2,982 July 2026
  12. 2,618 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Theft from the person6,884 reports
Other theft5,726 reports
Shoplifting4,887 reports
Anti-social behaviour4,498 reports
Violence and sexual offences4,290 reports
Public order1,264 reports
Vehicle crime1,250 reports
Robbery1,050 reports

Also: burglary 1,033, drugs 975, criminal damage and arson 559, bicycle theft 374, other crime 218, possession of weapons 146.

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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