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 YO12 6LN

Police.uk records 496 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the centre of YO12 6LN in August 2026, the latest month it has published.

Violence and sexual offences180 reports
Anti-social behaviour168 reports
Public order37 reports
Shoplifting35 reports
Criminal damage and arson22 reports
Other theft21 reports

Also: drugs 14, other crime 5, burglary 4, vehicle crime 4, possession of weapons 3, robbery 2, theft from the person 1.

Each month, September 2025 to August 2026

  1. 486 September 2025
  2. 435 October 2025
  3. 476 November 2025
  4. 527 December 2025
  5. 475 January 2026
  6. 377 February 2026
  7. 464 March 2026
  8. 540 April 2026
  9. 527 May 2026
  10. 632 June 2026
  11. 629 July 2026
  12. 496 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences2,131 reports
Anti-social behaviour1,640 reports
Shoplifting749 reports
Criminal damage and arson386 reports
Public order367 reports
Other theft218 reports
Drugs210 reports
Burglary86 reports

Also: other crime 77, vehicle crime 60, possession of weapons 58, robbery 40, theft from the person 21, bicycle theft 21.

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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