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 June 2026. The England and Wales rate is 91.2 per 1,000, and 131 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 92.6
- Central Bedfordshire 60.2
- Luton 92.7
Berkshire
- Bracknell Forest 65.0
- Reading 111.7
- Slough 103.0
- West Berkshire 65.1
- Windsor and Maidenhead 66.0
- Wokingham 44.3
Buckinghamshire
- Buckinghamshire 62.4
- Milton Keynes 101.0
Cambridgeshire
- Cambridge 110.2
- East Cambridgeshire 59.0
- Fenland 91.9
- Huntingdonshire 68.6
- Peterborough 124.4
- South Cambridgeshire 57.8
Cheshire
- Cheshire East 66.3
- Cheshire West and Chester 72.3
- Halton 90.1
- Warrington 75.4
Clwyd
- Conwy 105.7
- Denbighshire 111.6
- Flintshire 76.7
- Wrexham 100.5
County Durham
- County Durham 117.9
- Darlington 122.6
- Hartlepool 162.8
- Stockton-on-Tees 139.3
Cumbria
- Allerdale 72.6
- Barrow-in-Furness 101.3
- Carlisle 94.1
- Copeland 69.4
- Eden 61.3
- South Lakeland 58.7
Derbyshire
- Amber Valley 81.2
- Bolsover 85.2
- Chesterfield 119.4
- Derby 132.8
- Derbyshire Dales 54.6
- Erewash 90.6
- High Peak 72.2
- North East Derbyshire 71.1
- South Derbyshire 61.1
Devon
- East Devon 47.1
- Exeter 108.5
- Mid Devon 58.8
- North Devon 70.6
- Plymouth 109.0
- South Hams 47.2
- Teignbridge 59.1
- Torbay 108.9
- Torridge 54.4
- West Devon 45.3
Dorset
- Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 86.0
- Dorset 52.9
Dyfed
- Carmarthenshire 86.0
- Ceredigion 92.5
- Pembrokeshire 89.9
East Sussex
- Brighton and Hove 122.6
- Eastbourne 135.9
- Hastings 139.3
- Lewes 71.6
- Rother 71.3
- Wealden 53.2
Essex
- Basildon 98.1
- Braintree 60.7
- Brentwood 74.5
- Castle Point 61.0
- Chelmsford 81.3
- Colchester 92.8
- Epping Forest 75.6
- Harlow 106.5
- Maldon 49.4
- Rochford 50.0
- Southend-on-Sea 112.1
- Tendring 92.3
- Thurrock 99.4
- Uttlesford 60.6
Gloucestershire
- Cheltenham 61.4
- Cotswold 34.8
- Forest of Dean 34.6
- Gloucester 78.3
- South Gloucestershire 77.9
- Stroud 37.8
- Tewkesbury 34.3
Greater London
- Barking and Dagenham 105.2
- Barnet 93.1
- Bexley 77.8
- Brent 123.6
- Bromley 87.3
- Camden 217.8
- City of London 659.5
- Croydon 104.3
- Ealing 113.4
- Enfield 113.4
- Greenwich 113.4
- Hackney 148.1
- Hammersmith and Fulham 139.9
- Haringey 134.3
- Harrow 81.9
- Havering 88.9
- Hillingdon 120.9
- Hounslow 111.6
- Islington 182.4
- Kensington and Chelsea 178.6
- Kingston upon Thames 87.0
- Lambeth 152.2
- Lewisham 121.8
- Merton 75.8
- Newham 136.6
- Redbridge 95.8
- Richmond upon Thames 73.1
- Southwark 154.2
- Sutton 76.9
- Tower Hamlets 145.3
- Waltham Forest 105.8
- Wandsworth 99.3
- Westminster 421.3
Gwent
- Blaenau Gwent 144.2
- Caerphilly 104.8
- Monmouthshire 79.3
- Newport 133.4
- Torfaen 124.0
Gwynedd
- Gwynedd 86.8
- Isle of Anglesey 71.6
Hampshire
- Basingstoke and Deane 69.8
- East Hampshire 47.0
- Eastleigh 64.6
- Fareham 59.6
- Gosport 80.0
- Hart 44.4
- Havant 85.8
- New Forest 58.2
- Portsmouth 123.8
- Rushmoor 78.5
- Southampton 130.6
- Test Valley 60.3
- Winchester 62.9
Hertfordshire
- Broxbourne 95.1
- Dacorum 85.2
- East Hertfordshire 67.4
- Hertsmere 88.9
- North Hertfordshire 65.0
- St Albans 79.7
- Stevenage 116.3
- Three Rivers 66.9
- Watford 110.4
- Welwyn Hatfield 97.4
Kent
- Ashford 77.1
- Canterbury 109.3
- Dartford 109.5
- Dover 86.9
- Folkestone and Hythe 84.1
- Gravesham 94.2
- Maidstone 87.5
- Medway 101.9
- Sevenoaks 63.0
- Swale 100.0
- Thanet 116.2
- Tonbridge and Malling 66.8
- Tunbridge Wells 67.7
Lancashire
- Blackburn with Darwen 111.9
- Blackpool 187.8
- Burnley 141.6
- Chorley 79.9
- Fylde 75.0
- Hyndburn 127.8
- Lancaster 97.6
- Pendle 95.4
- Preston 130.2
- Ribble Valley 51.1
- Rossendale 89.1
- South Ribble 78.4
- West Lancashire 63.4
- Wyre 79.6
Leicestershire
- Blaby 68.8
- Charnwood 80.0
- Harborough 50.9
- Hinckley and Bosworth 66.0
- Leicester 122.5
- Melton 65.6
- North West Leicestershire 70.0
- Oadby and Wigston 60.9
Lincolnshire
- Boston 111.7
- East Lindsey 95.6
- Lincoln 155.0
- North East Lincolnshire 137.1
- North Kesteven 53.9
- North Lincolnshire 94.6
- South Holland 78.6
- South Kesteven 72.6
- West Lindsey 83.1
Merseyside
- Knowsley 93.0
- Liverpool 135.3
- Sefton 84.4
- St. Helens 94.4
- Wirral 79.6
Mid Glamorgan
- Bridgend 82.4
- Merthyr Tydfil 107.2
- Rhondda Cynon Taf 84.3
Norfolk
- Breckland 57.2
- Broadland 39.5
- Great Yarmouth 110.4
- King's Lynn and West Norfolk 64.7
- North Norfolk 50.0
- Norwich 124.8
- South Norfolk 48.4
North Yorkshire
- Craven 46.7
- Hambleton 53.4
- Harrogate 56.7
- Middlesbrough 185.8
- Redcar and Cleveland 137.3
- Richmondshire 44.3
- Ryedale 47.8
- Scarborough 122.8
- Selby 59.1
- York 91.4
Nottinghamshire
- Ashfield 99.4
- Bassetlaw 95.5
- Broxtowe 79.1
- Gedling 67.0
- Mansfield 115.6
- Newark and Sherwood 83.8
- Nottingham 154.4
- Rushcliffe 53.9
Oxfordshire
- Cherwell 72.3
- Oxford 106.3
- South Oxfordshire 46.6
- Vale of White Horse 53.3
- West Oxfordshire 49.7
Shropshire
- Shropshire 57.9
- Telford and Wrekin 88.8
Somerset
- Bath and North East Somerset 88.6
- Mendip 78.4
- North Somerset 86.6
- Sedgemoor 109.0
- Somerset West and Taunton 93.6
- South Somerset 80.7
South Glamorgan
- Cardiff 107.3
- Vale of Glamorgan 71.5
Staffordshire
- Cannock Chase 84.4
- East Staffordshire 78.4
- Lichfield 67.0
- Newcastle-under-Lyme 87.4
- South Staffordshire 57.2
- Stafford 78.7
- Staffordshire Moorlands 66.9
- Stoke-on-Trent 138.2
- Tamworth 80.7
Suffolk
- Babergh 44.8
- East Suffolk 57.0
- Ipswich 99.8
- Mid Suffolk 40.8
- West Suffolk 60.8
Surrey
- Elmbridge 61.5
- Epsom and Ewell 83.9
- Guildford 82.2
- Mole Valley 65.1
- Reigate and Banstead 70.2
- Runnymede 84.1
- Spelthorne 87.1
- Surrey Heath 60.8
- Tandridge 68.8
- Waverley 43.8
- Woking 73.4
Tyne and Wear
- Gateshead 98.3
- Newcastle upon Tyne 120.9
- North Tyneside 89.9
- South Tyneside 105.4
- Sunderland 100.6
Warwickshire
- North Warwickshire 78.8
- Nuneaton and Bedworth 107.5
- Rugby 72.2
- Stratford-on-Avon 63.8
- Warwick 83.8
West Glamorgan
- Neath Port Talbot 79.5
- Swansea 85.0
West Midlands
- Birmingham 123.3
- Coventry 95.6
- Dudley 79.4
- Sandwell 101.5
- Solihull 86.5
- Walsall 101.5
- Wolverhampton 98.2
West Sussex
- Adur 68.7
- Arun 87.6
- Chichester 78.2
- Crawley 129.5
- Horsham 56.1
- Mid Sussex 60.0
- Worthing 99.2
West Yorkshire
- Bradford 130.1
- Calderdale 117.5
- Kirklees 98.2
- Leeds 126.6
- Wakefield 117.9
Worcestershire
- Bromsgrove 60.7
- Malvern Hills 56.0
- Redditch 85.5
- Worcester 110.7
- Wychavon 65.6
- Wyre Forest 86.4
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 June 2026, the most recent month any force has published. Police data arrives roughly two months in arrears.