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 W1U 5BT

Police.uk records 2,870 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of W1U 5BT in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Shoplifting523 reports
Other theft477 reports
Anti-social behaviour429 reports
Theft from the person421 reports
Violence and sexual offences401 reports
Public order129 reports

Also: burglary 120, drugs 100, vehicle crime 93, robbery 76, bicycle theft 49, other crime 30, possession of weapons 16, criminal damage and arson 6.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 3,127 September 2025
  2. 3,096 October 2025
  3. 3,652 November 2025
  4. 3,950 December 2025
  5. 2,840 January 2026
  6. 2,623 February 2026
  7. 2,817 March 2026
  8. 3,016 April 2026
  9. 2,836 May 2026
  10. 2,911 June 2026
  11. 3,221 July 2026
  12. 2,870 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Theft from the person7,808 reports
Other theft6,609 reports
Shoplifting5,448 reports
Anti-social behaviour4,880 reports
Violence and sexual offences4,774 reports
Public order1,436 reports
Vehicle crime1,205 reports
Robbery1,152 reports

Also: burglary 1,143, drugs 1,085, criminal damage and arson 596, bicycle theft 448, other crime 221, possession of weapons 154.

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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