Recorded crime · December 2010 to July 2026
Crime in England and Wales, place by place
Recorded crime for every county, town, city and neighbourhood, from the Home Office's open data: the rate where you live, the parts of town behind it, the trend since 2010, and what became of the cases. Free to read and to reuse.
1,447 areas have a page of their own, built from 188 months of published figures going back to December 2010.
Highest rates
Local authority areas, crimes per 1,000 residents, year to July 2026.
| Area | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|
| City of London | 648.9 |
| Westminster | 416.0 |
| Camden | 216.0 |
| Middlesbrough | 186.8 |
| Blackpool | 186.3 |
| Islington | 183.8 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 176.8 |
| Hartlepool | 163.0 |
| Lincoln | 156.4 |
| Nottingham | 155.8 |
The City of London has around 8,600 residents and several hundred thousand daily workers and visitors, and every crime among them is divided by those 8,600 when the rate is worked out. Any district that is mostly town centre climbs this table the same way.
Lowest rates
Local authority areas, crimes per 1,000 residents, year to July 2026.
| Area | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|
| Broadland | 39.5 |
| Mid Suffolk | 40.7 |
| Waverley | 43.9 |
| Hart | 44.4 |
| Wokingham | 44.8 |
| West Devon | 45.1 |
| Babergh | 45.8 |
| South Oxfordshire | 46.8 |
| East Devon | 46.9 |
| Rutland | 46.9 |
Districts whose police force has stopped filing returns are left out. Their counts are low because the returns are missing, and this table would otherwise be a list of them.
Put two places side by side
Choosing between two towns is the question most people arrive with, and a rank on its own does not answer it. Compare any two areas on rate, offence mix and the trend back to 2010, or start from a place and use the neighbouring areas listed on it.
Browse by county
55 counties and 330 towns and cities, each broken down into its neighbourhoods.
- Bedfordshire
- Berkshire
- Bristol
- Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Clwyd
- Cornwall
- County Durham
- Cumbria
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Dorset
- Dyfed
- East Riding of Yorkshire
- East Sussex
- Essex
- Gloucestershire
- Greater London
- Greater Manchester
- Gwent
- Gwynedd
- Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- Isle of Wight
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Merseyside
- Mid Glamorgan
- Norfolk
- North Yorkshire
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Oxfordshire
- Powys
- Rutland
- Shropshire
- Somerset
- South Glamorgan
- South Yorkshire
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Tyne and Wear
- Warwickshire
- West Glamorgan
- West Midlands
- West Sussex
- West Yorkshire
- Wiltshire
- Worcestershire
What these figures do and do not tell you
These are recorded crimes: offences the police wrote down. Crimes that are never reported never appear, and a rise can mean better reporting rather than more offending. Rates are per 1,000 residents, so places with busy town centres, shopping areas or nightlife score higher because far more people are present than live there.
Individual forces skip months, and Greater Manchester Police has published nothing since 2019. Where that affects an area, its page carries a warning at the top; a gap in the returns is never drawn as a fall in crime. How the figures work sets out the calculation, the reporting lag and every known gap.