Data to June 2026
Local authority area · Greater Manchester
Crime in Tameside
Police recorded 23,112 offences in Tameside in 2025/26, or 96.4 per 1,000 residents. That is 16% above the England and Wales rate of 83.0 on the same return. It is 2.4% down on 2024/25.
These figures come from a different source. The police force covering Tameside has not published street-level crime data since August 2022. The only records that remain for this area in the 12 months to June 2026 are 52 offences recorded by other forces operating locally, mostly on the railways. Against a national average of 91.2 crimes per 1,000 residents, that would work out at under one, which cannot be the real crime rate in Tameside.
So Tameside is shown here from the Home Office recorded crime return instead. That is a different measurement and it is not comparable with the rest of this site: it counts to the Home Office Counting Rules rather than reflecting what a force uploaded, it is quarterly rather than monthly, it uses nine offence groups rather than the fourteen categories used elsewhere, and it locates nothing more precisely than the whole district. There is no map, no neighbourhood breakdown and no street data on this page, because the source has none. Tameside is also left out of every ranking and comparison on the site for the same reason.
What was recorded in Tameside, 2025/26
| Offence group | Offences | Per 1,000 | Share | On 2024/25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence against the person | 9,959 | 41.6 | +0.3% | |
| Theft offences | 5,205 | 21.7 | -6.8% | |
| Public order offences | 2,481 | 10.4 | -12.3% | |
| Criminal damage and arson | 1,881 | 7.8 | -8.3% | |
| Drug offences | 1,178 | 4.9 | +21.4% | |
| Sexual offences | 924 | 3.9 | -2.2% | |
| Miscellaneous crimes against society | 773 | 3.2 | +0.8% | |
| Possession of weapons offences | 408 | 1.7 | +14.0% | |
| Robbery | 303 | 1.3 | +26.2% | |
| All recorded offences | 23,112 | 96.4 | 100% | -2.4% |
Home Office offence groups as published. They do not line up with the fourteen categories used elsewhere on this site: "Theft offences" here covers burglary, vehicle crime, shoplifting and bicycle theft, which are four separate categories there. The rate uses the current ONS population estimate for Tameside.
Tameside over time
| Year | Offences |
|---|---|
| 2025/26 | 23,112 |
| 2024/25 | 23,677 |
| 2023/24 | 24,906 |
| 2022/23 | 27,907 |
| 2021/22 | 26,973 |
| 2020/21 | 21,464 |
| 2019/20 | 21,478 |
| 2018/19 | 25,635 |
| 2017/18 | 24,650 |
| 2016/17 | 21,077 |
| 2015/16 | 17,056 |
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Crime in context
How tightly packed it is
2,323 people per square kilometre, across 103 km². England and Wales averages about 400 people per square kilometre. Density is the usual explanation for a high position in the national crime table: a rate divides the crime of everyone who passes through by the number who sleep there.
What a home costs
The median home sold in Tameside in 2025 went for £217,500, across 2,849 sales, up 2.6% on 2024.
The night-time economy
Tameside had 690 premises licensed to sell alcohol, 28.8 per 10,000 residents, against 35.9 per 10,000 across England and Wales on the same count. A concentration of licensed premises is the other half of why compact centres sit high in the national crime table: much recorded violence and public order happens where the night-time economy is, and it is counted against the people who live there rather than the people who go there.
Officers to record it
Greater Manchester Police had 8,234 full-time equivalent officers as at 31 March 2026, 2.74 per 1,000 residents, above the England and Wales figure of 2.42. That is 31% above its low point of 6,297 in 2016. Recorded crime partly measures how much policing there is to record it, so a change in officer numbers moves the figures on this page even when nothing else does.
Licensed premises are as at 31 March 2022, the last count the Home Office published by licensing authority; it has reported national totals only since, and a pub estate changes slowly enough for the count to stay worth carrying. The date is shown so nobody reads it as current. Officer numbers are full-time equivalents from the Home Office police workforce return, counted across the whole force area. Nothing in this section causes anything on this page: a correlation is not a cause.
Who oversees policing in Tameside
Policing in Tameside is overseen by the Mayor of Greater Manchester, who holds the police and crime commissioner's powers here. Andy Burnham (Labour Co-op) won that election in May 2024.
Councils in England and Wales have no policing powers. The police force covering an area is answerable to a directly elected commissioner, or to the combined authority mayor where that office has taken the role on. The coloured strip under the trend chart shows these terms against the crime line.
The change column reports what recorded crime did across each term, because it is the first thing a reader wants from this table. It is what happened, not what the officeholder caused: recorded crime moves with reporting rules, how a force records what is reported, national policy and a pandemic, and those effects are far larger than anything one commissioner does in four years. The terms spanning 2020 and 2021 in particular contain the lockdowns, which cut recorded crime everywhere and handed the following term the rebound.
| Election | Elected | Party | Office | Crime over the term |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2024 | Andy Burnham | Labour Co-op | Mayor of Greater Manchester | – |
| May 2021 | Andy Burnham | Labour Co-op | Mayor of Greater Manchester | – |
| May 2017 | Andy Burnham | Labour Co-op | Mayor of Greater Manchester | – |
| November 2012 | Tony Lloyd | Labour | Police and Crime Commissioner | +20.4% |
These are election results, not terms of office: commissioners resign, die and are disqualified mid-term, and by-elections between the scheduled polls are listed here only where one has been held. For who holds the office today, the force's own website is the authority. The last column compares recorded crime in the 12 months ending at the handover (or the latest data) with the 12 months ending at the election itself; where a monthly return is missing, the window slides by up to four months to the nearest complete one. A dash means the term ran under a year or no complete window exists near it.
Questions
Where does this come from?
Police recorded crime open data, published at data.police.uk by the Home Office under the Open Government Licence. It covers offences the police recorded, which is not the same as offences committed: crimes that are never reported never appear. Rates use ONS mid-2024 population estimates. How the figures work sets out the calculation, the reporting lag and every known gap.
Police data is published roughly two months in arrears; the most recent month published by any force is June 2026.