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 WA8 8YE

Police.uk records 181 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of WA8 8YE in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences91 reports
Public order21 reports
Anti-social behaviour18 reports
Other crime12 reports
Criminal damage and arson11 reports
Other theft8 reports

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 165 September 2025
  2. 184 October 2025
  3. 143 November 2025
  4. 134 December 2025
  5. 131 January 2026
  6. 138 February 2026
  7. 175 March 2026
  8. 152 April 2026
  9. 160 May 2026
  10. 159 June 2026
  11. 209 July 2026
  12. 181 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences967 reports
Public order201 reports
Anti-social behaviour180 reports
Criminal damage and arson127 reports
Drugs114 reports
Other theft100 reports
Other crime72 reports
Vehicle crime64 reports

Also: burglary 34, possession of weapons 31, shoplifting 18, robbery 12, bicycle theft 11.

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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