Crime by postcode

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Police.uk records 4,220 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of W1J 6EG in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Other theft788 reports
Shoplifting749 reports
Theft from the person727 reports
Violence and sexual offences633 reports
Anti-social behaviour523 reports
Public order189 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 4,972 September 2025
  2. 5,454 October 2025
  3. 6,504 November 2025
  4. 6,596 December 2025
  5. 4,782 January 2026
  6. 4,483 February 2026
  7. 4,353 March 2026
  8. 4,601 April 2026
  9. 4,393 May 2026
  10. 4,324 June 2026
  11. 4,819 July 2026
  12. 4,220 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Theft from the person15,586 reports
Other theft11,835 reports
Shoplifting7,620 reports
Violence and sexual offences7,194 reports
Anti-social behaviour6,350 reports
Public order2,428 reports
Robbery2,112 reports
Drugs1,926 reports

Also: vehicle crime 1,348, burglary 1,290, criminal damage and arson 789, bicycle theft 502, other crime 276, possession of weapons 245.

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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