The crime map of England and Wales
This map shades every one of the 330 local authority areas in England and Wales by the crimes its police force recorded per 1,000 residents in the 12 months to July 2026. The England and Wales rate is 91.2 per 1,000, and 129 areas sit above it, fewer than half, because a handful of city centres pull the average up.
What the colours mean. Each area is shaded by crimes the police recorded per 1,000 residents, against the England and Wales average rather than against the other areas on screen. That matters: shading by rank would paint a fifth of the country dark whatever the actual rates, which is the commonest way a crime map misleads. Rates are not a measure of how much crime happened: somewhere people report more looks worse than somewhere people report less. And a town centre carries the crime of everyone who visits it against the few who live there. How the figures work sets all of it out.
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Select an area to open its page. Outlines are Office for National Statistics local authority boundaries, generalised for a map at this scale, so coastlines are approximate. 10 areas are drawn in grey: their police force has stopped filing full returns, so there is no rate to shade them with.
Every area on the map
By county, with the same rate the map shades.
Bedfordshire
- Bedford 93.7
- Central Bedfordshire 60.8
- Luton 92.3
Berkshire
- Bracknell Forest 65.4
- Reading 112.1
- Slough 103.0
- West Berkshire 65.5
- Windsor and Maidenhead 65.7
- Wokingham 44.8
Buckinghamshire
- Buckinghamshire 62.3
- Milton Keynes 100.5
Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge 109.9
- East Cambridgeshire 60.0
- Fenland 90.6
- Huntingdonshire 67.9
- Peterborough 124.6
- South Cambridgeshire 58.4
Cheshire
- Cheshire East 67.0
- Cheshire West and Chester 72.9
- Halton 91.0
- Warrington 75.5
Clwyd
- Conwy 107.0
- Denbighshire 112.8
- Flintshire 77.2
- Wrexham 101.2
County Durham
- County Durham 119.4
- Darlington 124.8
- Hartlepool 163.0
- Stockton-on-Tees 141.7
Cumbria
- Allerdale 72.3
- Barrow-in-Furness 102.3
- Carlisle 97.0
- Copeland 69.1
- Eden 60.9
- South Lakeland 59.5
Derbyshire
- Amber Valley 81.4
- Bolsover 85.5
- Chesterfield 120.9
- Derby 133.1
- Derbyshire Dales 55.3
- Erewash 91.0
- High Peak 72.6
- North East Derbyshire 70.6
- South Derbyshire 61.6
Devon
- East Devon 46.9
- Exeter 108.6
- Mid Devon 58.4
- North Devon 70.5
- Plymouth 109.1
- South Hams 47.4
- Teignbridge 58.7
- Torbay 109.4
- Torridge 54.8
- West Devon 45.1
Dorset
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 86.6
- Dorset 53.2
Dyfed
- Carmarthenshire 86.2
- Ceredigion 92.4
- Pembrokeshire 89.8
East Sussex
- Brighton and Hove 123.6
- Eastbourne 138.1
- Hastings 142.9
- Lewes 72.4
- Rother 71.8
- Wealden 54.1
Essex
- Basildon 98.2
- Braintree 61.3
- Brentwood 74.1
- Castle Point 62.1
- Chelmsford 82.9
- Colchester 94.3
- Epping Forest 75.9
- Harlow 108.6
- Maldon 50.0
- Rochford 50.8
- Southend-on-Sea 113.2
- Tendring 93.4
- Thurrock 99.9
- Uttlesford 60.9
Gloucestershire
- Cheltenham 52.6
- Cotswold 29.5
- Forest of Dean 28.3
- Gloucester 66.3
- South Gloucestershire 78.2
- Stroud 31.6
- Tewkesbury 28.8
Greater London
- Barking and Dagenham 104.8
- Barnet 92.7
- Bexley 78.3
- Brent 122.2
- Bromley 87.2
- Camden 216.0
- City of London 648.9
- Croydon 104.1
- Ealing 113.1
- Enfield 112.9
- Greenwich 113.5
- Hackney 146.9
- Hammersmith and Fulham 139.0
- Haringey 132.9
- Harrow 81.6
- Havering 88.6
- Hillingdon 119.8
- Hounslow 110.5
- Islington 183.8
- Kensington and Chelsea 176.8
- Kingston upon Thames 86.7
- Lambeth 153.2
- Lewisham 122.7
- Merton 74.6
- Newham 135.9
- Redbridge 95.5
- Richmond upon Thames 73.2
- Southwark 155.7
- Sutton 76.8
- Tower Hamlets 144.7
- Waltham Forest 105.4
- Wandsworth 99.2
- Westminster 416.0
Gwent
- Blaenau Gwent 146.7
- Caerphilly 106.0
- Monmouthshire 79.5
- Newport 135.4
- Torfaen 125.3
Gwynedd
- Gwynedd 87.9
- Isle of Anglesey 72.8
Hampshire
- Basingstoke and Deane 69.6
- East Hampshire 47.4
- Eastleigh 65.1
- Fareham 60.5
- Gosport 78.9
- Hart 44.4
- Havant 87.0
- New Forest 58.2
- Portsmouth 124.4
- Rushmoor 77.9
- Southampton 131.6
- Test Valley 60.4
- Winchester 62.9
Hertfordshire
- Broxbourne 93.8
- Dacorum 84.5
- East Hertfordshire 68.1
- Hertsmere 88.8
- North Hertfordshire 65.7
- St Albans 79.2
- Stevenage 117.4
- Three Rivers 67.1
- Watford 110.4
- Welwyn Hatfield 97.6
Kent
- Ashford 76.7
- Canterbury 108.7
- Dartford 108.0
- Dover 87.3
- Folkestone and Hythe 84.9
- Gravesham 93.1
- Maidstone 86.4
- Medway 102.0
- Sevenoaks 62.7
- Swale 99.3
- Thanet 114.6
- Tonbridge and Malling 66.8
- Tunbridge Wells 67.5
Lancashire
- Blackburn with Darwen 111.0
- Blackpool 186.3
- Burnley 142.2
- Chorley 78.8
- Fylde 73.3
- Hyndburn 125.9
- Lancaster 98.2
- Pendle 94.1
- Preston 128.1
- Ribble Valley 50.5
- Rossendale 88.3
- South Ribble 78.1
- West Lancashire 62.3
- Wyre 78.8
Leicestershire
- Blaby 69.6
- Charnwood 80.2
- Harborough 50.9
- Hinckley and Bosworth 66.4
- Leicester 122.5
- Melton 66.3
- North West Leicestershire 70.4
- Oadby and Wigston 60.2
Lincolnshire
- Boston 110.9
- East Lindsey 97.4
- Lincoln 156.4
- North East Lincolnshire 137.5
- North Kesteven 54.4
- North Lincolnshire 95.3
- South Holland 79.0
- South Kesteven 73.9
- West Lindsey 83.0
Merseyside
- Knowsley 92.6
- Liverpool 136.3
- Sefton 85.2
- St. Helens 95.0
- Wirral 79.8
Mid Glamorgan
- Bridgend 83.7
- Merthyr Tydfil 108.0
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 84.9
Norfolk
- Breckland 57.7
- Broadland 39.5
- Great Yarmouth 111.4
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 65.6
- North Norfolk 50.7
- Norwich 125.2
- South Norfolk 48.8
North Yorkshire
- Craven 42.2
- Hambleton 47.9
- Harrogate 51.4
- Middlesbrough 186.8
- Redcar and Cleveland 136.4
- Richmondshire 40.6
- Ryedale 42.8
- Scarborough 110.6
- Selby 53.4
- York 82.7
Nottinghamshire
- Ashfield 100.0
- Bassetlaw 96.0
- Broxtowe 79.7
- Gedling 68.4
- Mansfield 117.2
- Newark and Sherwood 84.0
- Nottingham 155.8
- Rushcliffe 54.4
Oxfordshire
- Cherwell 71.9
- Oxford 106.8
- South Oxfordshire 46.8
- Vale of White Horse 53.1
- West Oxfordshire 49.7
Shropshire
- Shropshire 58.0
- Telford and Wrekin 88.4
Somerset
- Bath and North East Somerset 89.4
- Mendip 79.2
- North Somerset 86.9
- Sedgemoor 110.3
- Somerset West and Taunton 94.0
- South Somerset 81.4
South Glamorgan
- Cardiff 109.6
- Vale of Glamorgan 72.1
Staffordshire
- Cannock Chase 85.7
- East Staffordshire 79.0
- Lichfield 67.7
- Newcastle-under-Lyme 88.4
- South Staffordshire 58.1
- Stafford 80.2
- Staffordshire Moorlands 67.4
- Stoke-on-Trent 138.9
- Tamworth 81.0
Suffolk
- Babergh 45.8
- East Suffolk 57.6
- Ipswich 99.8
- Mid Suffolk 40.7
- West Suffolk 60.4
Surrey
- Elmbridge 61.3
- Epsom and Ewell 84.8
- Guildford 81.5
- Mole Valley 65.5
- Reigate and Banstead 70.4
- Runnymede 85.2
- Spelthorne 86.4
- Surrey Heath 60.9
- Tandridge 68.8
- Waverley 43.9
- Woking 73.2
Tyne and Wear
- Gateshead 96.6
- Newcastle upon Tyne 119.6
- North Tyneside 89.6
- South Tyneside 104.6
- Sunderland 99.3
Warwickshire
- North Warwickshire 79.0
- Nuneaton and Bedworth 107.9
- Rugby 72.6
- Stratford-on-Avon 64.3
- Warwick 84.3
West Glamorgan
- Neath Port Talbot 81.2
- Swansea 85.7
West Midlands
- Birmingham 123.9
- Coventry 96.8
- Dudley 79.9
- Sandwell 102.1
- Solihull 87.0
- Walsall 102.8
- Wolverhampton 98.6
West Sussex
- Adur 69.0
- Arun 88.5
- Chichester 79.4
- Crawley 129.6
- Horsham 56.3
- Mid Sussex 60.0
- Worthing 99.9
West Yorkshire
- Bradford 129.8
- Calderdale 116.8
- Kirklees 98.5
- Leeds 125.9
- Wakefield 117.3
Worcestershire
- Bromsgrove 61.0
- Malvern Hills 56.2
- Redditch 85.8
- Worcester 111.9
- Wychavon 65.4
- Wyre Forest 86.2
How to read it
The five colours are ratios to the England and Wales rate of 91.2 crimes per 1,000 residents, so the same colour means the same thing everywhere on the map. An area shaded rust records more than double the national rate; one shaded teal records less than half of it.
The pattern the map draws is mostly a pattern of city centres. Recorded crime concentrates where people gather rather than where they live, and because the rate divides by residents only, a district holding a shopping centre, a station or a nightlife strip will read high even when the streets people live on are quiet. That is why the darkest shapes are small and urban, and why comparing a city district with the countryside around it says more about what the two places are for than about how safe they are.
For a ranked list of the same figures, see the safest places to live and where crime is highest, or put two places side by side with the comparison tool.
Figures cover the 12 months to July 2026, the most recent month any force has published. Police data arrives roughly two months in arrears.