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 585 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of W3 9BT in August 2026, the latest month it has published.
Also: burglary 26, drugs 19, theft from the person 11, robbery 11, other crime 9, possession of weapons 5, bicycle theft 3, criminal damage and arson 1.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 628 September 2025
- 662 October 2025
- 594 November 2025
- 527 December 2025
- 468 January 2026
- 506 February 2026
- 617 March 2026
- 593 April 2026
- 677 May 2026
- 592 June 2026
- 665 July 2026
- 585 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Also: criminal damage and arson 262, theft from the person 154, robbery 108, bicycle theft 86, other crime 50, possession of weapons 45.
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.
Your local policing team on Police.ukHow 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.
Source: police.uk, from its download of 30 September 2026, figures to August 2026.
Where the facts on this page come from
- data.police.uk: police.uk
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
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