OpenCrime

Where crime is highest in England and Wales

City of London has the highest recorded crime rate of the 306 local authority areas in England and Wales with a full year of published data; Westminster and Camden are next. City of London recorded 648.9 offences per 1,000 residents in the 12 months to July 2026, more than seven times the England and Wales average of 91.2.

306 areas ranked, every one with a full year of published data
91.2 England and Wales average, crimes per 1,000 residents
648.9 highest rate in the table, City of London

What this ranks. Crimes the police recorded, per 1,000 residents, in the 12 months to July 2026. It is not a measure of how much crime happened: somewhere people report more looks worse than somewhere people report less. Town centres carry the crime of everyone who visits them against the population of the few who live there, which is why compact city districts sit near the top and rural districts near the bottom. Areas whose police force has stopped filing returns are left out entirely rather than shown as safe. How the figures work sets all of it out.

Every local authority area, ranked

Highest recorded crime rate first. Rank 1 in the England and Wales column is the highest recorded rate in the country.

# Area County Per 1,000 Per 1,000 workday Offences Year on year Rank in E&W
1 City of London Greater London 648.9 106.4 9,805 -6.0% 1 of 306
2 Westminster Greater London 416.0 237.7 87,349 -14.5% 2 of 306
3 Camden Greater London 216.0 163.1 46,860 -7.9% 3 of 306
4 Middlesbrough North Yorkshire 186.8 196.7 29,175 +2.8% 4 of 306
5 Blackpool Lancashire 186.3 187.8 26,857 -12.2% 5 of 306
6 Islington Greater London 183.8 174.8 41,000 -2.3% 6 of 306
7 Kensington and Chelsea Greater London 176.8 137.8 25,550 -7.2% 7 of 306
8 Hartlepool County Durham 163.0 182.4 15,999 +1.1% 8 of 306
9 Lincoln Lincolnshire 156.4 152.7 16,440 -1.9% 9 of 306
10 Nottingham Nottinghamshire 155.8 148.5 51,573 +5.0% 10 of 306
11 Southwark Greater London 155.7 154.9 49,003 -1.9% 11 of 306
12 Lambeth Greater London 153.2 151.0 48,559 +1.1% 12 of 306
13 Bristol Bristol 148.8 151.1 73,545 +8.5% 13 of 306
14 Hackney Greater London 146.9 152.1 39,179 -2.4% 14 of 306
15 Blaenau Gwent Gwent 146.7 164.9 9,956 +1.3% 15 of 306
16 Tower Hamlets Greater London 144.7 142.1 48,015 +0.9% 16 of 306
17 Hastings East Sussex 142.9 146.2 13,034 +17.2% 17 of 306
18 Burnley Lancashire 142.2 148.4 14,110 +1.7% 18 of 306
19 Stockton-on-Tees County Durham 141.7 148.6 29,300 +15.6% 19 of 306
20 Hammersmith and Fulham Greater London 139.0 130.4 26,219 -3.7% 20 of 306
21 Stoke-on-Trent Staffordshire 138.9 143.2 37,571 +7.8% 21 of 306
22 Eastbourne East Sussex 138.1 141.1 14,399 +6.8% 22 of 306
23 Kingston upon Hull East Riding of Yorkshire 137.6 141.6 37,897 +2.8% 23 of 306
24 North East Lincolnshire Lincolnshire 137.5 140.8 21,982 +1.6% 24 of 306
25 Redcar and Cleveland North Yorkshire 136.4 149.3 18,994 +0.0% 25 of 306
26 Liverpool Merseyside 136.3 136.6 69,358 +1.6% 26 of 306
27 Newham Greater London 135.9 153.1 50,890 +1.0% 27 of 306
28 Newport Gwent 135.4 141.5 22,735 +0.6% 28 of 306
29 Derby Derbyshire 133.1 136.4 36,488 +2.2% 29 of 306
30 Haringey Greater London 132.9 142.6 35,064 -3.7% 30 of 306
31 Doncaster South Yorkshire 132.0 138.5 42,218 -1.9% 31 of 306
32 Southampton Hampshire 131.6 140.3 34,149 -0.9% 32 of 306
33 Bradford West Yorkshire 129.8 134.9 73,156 -4.0% 33 of 306
34 Crawley West Sussex 129.6 130.7 16,076 +1.6% 34 of 306
35 Preston Lancashire 128.1 133.0 20,865 -8.9% 35 of 306
36 Hyndburn Lancashire 125.9 138.5 10,835 -6.4% 36 of 306
37 Leeds West Yorkshire 125.9 127.7 106,410 -3.4% 37 of 306
38 Torfaen Gwent 125.3 128.8 11,796 +4.0% 38 of 306
39 Norwich Norfolk 125.2 122.0 18,420 -2.9% 39 of 306
40 Darlington County Durham 124.8 127.7 14,033 +6.0% 40 of 306
41 Peterborough Cambridgeshire 124.6 125.9 27,869 -0.1% 41 of 306
42 Portsmouth Hampshire 124.4 124.7 26,665 -1.6% 42 of 306
43 Birmingham West Midlands 123.9 125.8 146,625 -2.3% 43 of 306
44 Brighton and Hove East Sussex 123.6 125.0 35,086 -1.9% 44 of 306
45 Lewisham Greater London 122.7 134.2 36,975 +2.1% 45 of 306
46 Leicester Leicestershire 122.5 127.6 47,587 -6.3% 46 of 306
47 Brent Greater London 122.2 132.4 43,138 -0.3% 47 of 306
48 Chesterfield Derbyshire 120.9 118.8 12,820 +0.9% 48 of 306
49 Hillingdon Greater London 119.8 120.9 39,446 +0.2% 49 of 306
50 Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear 119.6 118.8 38,331 -14.4% 50 of 306
51 County Durham County Durham 119.4 127.8 64,238 +8.1% 51 of 306
52 Stevenage Hertfordshire 117.4 119.1 10,776 +9.7% 52 of 306
53 Wakefield West Yorkshire 117.3 121.0 43,130 -7.3% 53 of 306
54 Mansfield Nottinghamshire 117.2 130.7 13,254 +3.0% 54 of 306
55 Calderdale West Yorkshire 116.8 120.8 24,636 -5.3% 55 of 306
56 Thanet Kent 114.6 120.1 16,349 -5.9% 56 of 306
57 Greenwich Greater London 113.5 123.7 33,981 -2.6% 57 of 306
58 Southend-on-Sea Essex 113.2 118.2 20,967 +7.4% 58 of 306
59 Ealing Greater London 113.1 123.5 43,653 +0.8% 59 of 306
60 Enfield Greater London 112.9 115.7 36,957 -2.9% 60 of 306
61 Denbighshire Clwyd 112.8 113.5 11,075 -0.8% 61 of 306
62 Sheffield South Yorkshire 112.4 115.0 65,498 -1.4% 62 of 306
63 Reading Berkshire 112.1 117.2 20,512 +6.2% 63 of 306
64 Worcester Worcestershire 111.9 114.4 11,941 -2.8% 64 of 306
65 Great Yarmouth Norfolk 111.4 115.8 11,197 -2.2% 65 of 306
66 Blackburn with Darwen Lancashire 111.0 112.9 18,049 -7.5% 66 of 306
67 Rotherham South Yorkshire 111.0 118.3 30,695 +5.2% 67 of 306
68 Boston Lincolnshire 110.9 115.4 7,879 -1.7% 68 of 306
69 Hounslow Greater London 110.5 119.7 33,076 -0.7% 69 of 306
70 Watford Hertfordshire 110.4 114.4 11,830 +3.8% 70 of 306
71 Sedgemoor Somerset 110.3 118.7 14,404 +5.0% 71 of 306
72 Cambridge Cambridgeshire 109.9 97.7 16,407 -2.4% 72 of 306
73 Cardiff South Glamorgan 109.6 110.3 42,057 -2.0% 73 of 306
74 Torbay Devon 109.4 112.3 15,330 -0.5% 74 of 306
75 Plymouth Devon 109.1 111.8 29,674 -2.3% 75 of 306
76 Canterbury Kent 108.7 109.9 17,618 +5.5% 76 of 306
77 Exeter Devon 108.6 101.6 15,026 -4.7% 77 of 306
78 Harlow Essex 108.6 118.2 10,663 +4.6% 78 of 306
79 Dartford Kent 108.0 112.0 13,504 -2.0% 79 of 306
80 Merthyr Tydfil Mid Glamorgan 108.0 108.7 6,367 -3.0% 80 of 306
81 Nuneaton and Bedworth Warwickshire 107.9 123.1 15,275 +5.4% 81 of 306
82 Conwy Clwyd 107.0 111.1 12,295 +0.8% 82 of 306
83 Barnsley South Yorkshire 106.9 115.7 26,917 -3.7% 83 of 306
84 Oxford Oxfordshire 106.8 98.1 17,736 -3.7% 84 of 306
85 Caerphilly Gwent 106.0 112.6 18,746 +0.7% 85 of 306
86 Waltham Forest Greater London 105.4 114.4 29,474 -5.6% 86 of 306
87 Barking and Dagenham Greater London 104.8 122.9 24,389 -0.2% 87 of 306
88 South Tyneside Tyne and Wear 104.6 115.2 15,836 -15.1% 88 of 306
89 Croydon Greater London 104.1 117.4 42,591 -3.3% 89 of 306
90 Slough Berkshire 103.0 109.4 17,242 +6.5% 90 of 306
91 Walsall West Midlands 102.8 111.2 30,398 +0.1% 91 of 306
92 Barrow-in-Furness Cumbria 102.3 102.1 6,962 +1.7% 92 of 306
93 Sandwell West Midlands 102.1 108.0 36,124 -2.5% 93 of 306
94 Medway Kent 102.0 113.4 29,852 -4.6% 94 of 306
95 Wrexham Clwyd 101.2 104.2 13,987 -1.7% 95 of 306
96 Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire 100.5 103.2 30,731 +1.4% 96 of 306
97 Ashfield Nottinghamshire 100.0 102.6 12,956 +1.5% 97 of 306
98 Thurrock Essex 99.9 104.9 18,082 +3.1% 98 of 306
99 Worthing West Sussex 99.9 103.0 11,373 +8.0% 99 of 306
100 Ipswich Suffolk 99.8 100.7 13,997 +2.9% 100 of 306
101 Swale Kent 99.3 107.3 15,724 -6.0% 101 of 306
102 Sunderland Tyne and Wear 99.3 103.3 28,651 -14.9% 102 of 306
103 Wandsworth Greater London 99.2 102.5 33,499 0.0% 103 of 306
104 Wolverhampton West Midlands 98.6 107.4 27,717 -7.5% 104 of 306
105 Kirklees West Yorkshire 98.5 105.5 44,097 -2.2% 105 of 306
106 Basildon Essex 98.2 101.1 19,018 +1.9% 106 of 306
107 Lancaster Lancashire 98.2 101.4 14,238 -8.7% 107 of 306
108 Welwyn Hatfield Hertfordshire 97.6 95.3 11,992 -2.9% 108 of 306
109 East Lindsey Lincolnshire 97.4 101.9 14,146 +5.0% 109 of 306
110 Carlisle Cumbria 97.0 100.6 11,141 +1.0% 110 of 306
111 Coventry West Midlands 96.8 105.2 35,712 -6.1% 111 of 306
112 Gateshead Tyne and Wear 96.6 98.2 19,584 -13.4% 112 of 306
113 Bassetlaw Nottinghamshire 96.0 102.8 11,994 +2.6% 113 of 306
114 Redbridge Greater London 95.5 107.6 30,687 +2.9% 114 of 306
115 North Lincolnshire Lincolnshire 95.3 95.2 16,325 +3.5% 115 of 306
116 St. Helens Merseyside 95.0 104.7 17,936 +0.8% 116 of 306
117 Colchester Essex 94.3 97.8 18,889 +8.4% 117 of 306
118 Pendle Lancashire 94.1 102.2 9,393 -6.9% 118 of 306
119 Somerset West and Taunton Somerset 94.0 94.3 15,329 +3.4% 119 of 306
120 Broxbourne Hertfordshire 93.8 103.0 9,560 +6.2% 120 of 306
121 Bedford Bedfordshire 93.7 100.0 18,267 +1.8% 121 of 306
122 Tendring Essex 93.4 103.5 14,639 +4.6% 122 of 306
123 Gravesham Kent 93.1 105.1 10,308 -12.3% 123 of 306
124 Barnet Greater London 92.7 100.5 37,559 +3.9% 124 of 306
125 Knowsley Merseyside 92.6 97.0 15,048 -0.2% 125 of 306
126 West Northamptonshire Northamptonshire 92.5 94.0 40,681 +2.0% 126 of 306
127 Ceredigion Dyfed 92.4 93.7 6,707 +24.9% 127 of 306
128 Luton Bedfordshire 92.3 102.7 22,055 -4.1% 128 of 306
129 Erewash Derbyshire 91.0 99.0 10,391 +0.3% 129 of 306
130 Halton Cheshire 91.0 94.8 11,964 -5.9% 130 of 306
131 Fenland Cambridgeshire 90.6 96.0 9,502 -0.5% 131 of 306
132 Pembrokeshire Dyfed 89.8 92.5 11,292 -1.5% 132 of 306
133 North Tyneside Tyne and Wear 89.6 95.7 19,275 -12.3% 133 of 306
134 Bath and North East Somerset Somerset 89.4 90.4 17,881 +5.3% 134 of 306
135 Hertsmere Hertfordshire 88.8 89.2 9,789 -9.1% 135 of 306
136 Havering Greater London 88.6 96.7 24,479 -0.2% 136 of 306
137 Arun West Sussex 88.5 98.7 15,051 +2.3% 137 of 306
138 Telford and Wrekin Shropshire 88.4 92.4 17,325 -4.6% 138 of 306
139 Newcastle-under-Lyme Staffordshire 88.4 96.6 11,290 +11.0% 139 of 306
140 Rossendale Lancashire 88.3 99.0 6,452 -8.3% 140 of 306
141 Gwynedd Gwynedd 87.9 89.4 10,616 +2.6% 141 of 306
142 North Northamptonshire Northamptonshire 87.5 94.2 32,710 -5.1% 142 of 306
143 Dover Kent 87.3 94.9 10,455 -5.0% 143 of 306
144 Bromley Greater London 87.2 90.7 29,229 -1.7% 144 of 306
145 Solihull West Midlands 87.0 84.0 19,245 +2.0% 145 of 306
146 Havant Hampshire 87.0 94.7 11,044 -0.1% 146 of 306
147 North Somerset Somerset 86.9 92.3 19,522 +1.0% 147 of 306
148 Kingston upon Thames Greater London 86.7 89.1 14,970 +1.2% 148 of 306
149 Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole Dorset 86.6 89.0 35,434 -4.3% 149 of 306
150 Maidstone Kent 86.4 93.4 16,230 -4.6% 150 of 306
151 Spelthorne Surrey 86.4 95.8 9,252 -5.5% 151 of 306
152 Carmarthenshire Dyfed 86.2 89.7 16,454 +2.7% 152 of 306
153 Wyre Forest Worcestershire 86.2 93.9 8,958 -6.3% 153 of 306
154 Redditch Worcestershire 85.8 89.0 7,540 -3.6% 154 of 306
155 Cannock Chase Staffordshire 85.7 92.0 8,921 +4.1% 155 of 306
156 Swansea West Glamorgan 85.7 88.8 21,537 -6.2% 156 of 306
157 Bolsover Derbyshire 85.5 91.9 7,159 -0.8% 157 of 306
158 Runnymede Surrey 85.2 86.5 7,849 +2.9% 158 of 306
159 Sefton Merseyside 85.2 91.8 24,388 +1.0% 159 of 306
160 Folkestone and Hythe Kent 84.9 89.3 9,548 -0.1% 160 of 306
161 Rhondda Cynon Taf Mid Glamorgan 84.9 91.5 20,613 -1.9% 161 of 306
162 Epsom and Ewell Surrey 84.8 88.0 7,062 +11.3% 162 of 306
163 Dacorum Hertfordshire 84.5 89.1 13,646 -6.3% 163 of 306
164 Warwick Warwickshire 84.3 82.2 13,055 +13.8% 164 of 306
165 Newark and Sherwood Nottinghamshire 84.0 87.2 10,742 -1.1% 165 of 306
166 Bridgend Mid Glamorgan 83.7 86.3 12,344 +2.5% 166 of 306
167 Isle of Wight Isle of Wight 83.3 84.7 11,798 -2.2% 167 of 306
168 West Lindsey Lincolnshire 83.0 92.4 8,235 +1.6% 168 of 306
169 Chelmsford Essex 82.9 83.9 15,643 +6.2% 169 of 306
170 Harrow Greater London 81.6 93.2 22,094 +0.8% 170 of 306
171 Guildford Surrey 81.5 80.9 12,341 -3.4% 171 of 306
172 Swindon Wiltshire 81.5 86.6 19,864 -1.5% 172 of 306
173 South Somerset Somerset 81.4 84.2 14,361 +7.3% 173 of 306
174 Amber Valley Derbyshire 81.4 86.7 10,619 -2.5% 174 of 306
175 Neath Port Talbot West Glamorgan 81.2 83.0 11,633 -3.1% 175 of 306
176 Tamworth Staffordshire 81.0 91.2 6,572 -2.5% 176 of 306
177 Charnwood Leicestershire 80.2 85.2 15,116 +0.9% 177 of 306
178 Stafford Staffordshire 80.2 82.8 11,355 +9.3% 178 of 306
179 Dudley West Midlands 79.9 85.6 26,511 -5.2% 179 of 306
180 Wirral Merseyside 79.8 86.2 26,231 +3.0% 180 of 306
181 Broxtowe Nottinghamshire 79.7 86.9 9,127 +4.8% 181 of 306
182 Monmouthshire Gwent 79.5 81.6 7,550 +3.7% 182 of 306
183 Chichester West Sussex 79.4 76.9 10,241 +2.6% 183 of 306
184 Northumberland Northumberland 79.4 85.1 26,302 -13.1% 184 of 306
185 Mendip Somerset 79.2 81.4 9,372 +8.4% 185 of 306
186 St Albans Hertfordshire 79.2 75.7 11,959 -1.3% 186 of 306
187 East Staffordshire Staffordshire 79.0 79.1 10,240 +6.7% 187 of 306
188 South Holland Lincolnshire 79.0 82.8 7,842 +4.8% 188 of 306
189 North Warwickshire Warwickshire 79.0 65.6 5,299 -0.1% 189 of 306
190 Gosport Hampshire 78.9 88.9 6,538 -11.4% 190 of 306
191 Chorley Lancashire 78.8 85.6 9,526 -4.3% 191 of 306
192 Wyre Lancashire 78.8 88.5 9,353 -7.6% 192 of 306
193 Bexley Greater London 78.3 86.4 20,071 +0.9% 193 of 306
194 South Gloucestershire Gloucestershire 78.2 81.7 23,957 +10.7% 194 of 306
195 South Ribble Lancashire 78.1 81.6 9,072 -6.7% 195 of 306
196 Rushmoor Hampshire 77.9 88.7 8,239 -8.1% 196 of 306
197 Flintshire Clwyd 77.2 78.2 12,032 -2.1% 197 of 306
198 Sutton Greater London 76.8 82.7 16,474 +2.0% 198 of 306
199 Ashford Kent 76.7 81.6 10,803 -2.7% 199 of 306
200 Powys Powys 76.6 79.1 10,340 +6.3% 200 of 306
201 Epping Forest Essex 75.9 79.3 10,436 +0.5% 201 of 306
202 Warrington Cheshire 75.5 72.6 16,255 +2.6% 202 of 306
203 Merton Greater London 74.6 80.1 16,295 -7.7% 203 of 306
204 Brentwood Essex 74.1 75.7 5,874 +4.1% 204 of 306
205 South Kesteven Lincolnshire 73.9 78.9 10,867 +6.6% 205 of 306
206 Fylde Lancashire 73.3 75.0 6,265 -6.9% 206 of 306
207 Richmond upon Thames Greater London 73.2 72.2 14,398 -6.2% 207 of 306
208 Woking Surrey 73.2 76.0 7,737 +0.3% 208 of 306
209 Cheshire West and Chester Cheshire 72.9 75.7 27,080 +1.7% 209 of 306
210 Isle of Anglesey Gwynedd 72.8 76.6 5,028 +2.1% 210 of 306
211 Rugby Warwickshire 72.6 78.7 8,887 +7.0% 211 of 306
212 High Peak Derbyshire 72.6 77.1 6,674 +0.2% 212 of 306
213 Lewes East Sussex 72.4 75.2 7,407 +3.7% 213 of 306
214 Allerdale Cumbria 72.3 76.5 7,070 +1.5% 214 of 306
215 Vale of Glamorgan South Glamorgan 72.1 76.1 9,784 -2.3% 215 of 306
216 Cherwell Oxfordshire 71.9 75.5 12,246 +0.6% 216 of 306
217 Rother East Sussex 71.8 75.8 6,900 -2.3% 217 of 306
218 Cornwall Cornwall 71.4 73.7 41,624 -1.7% 218 of 306
219 North East Derbyshire Derbyshire 70.6 82.1 7,528 +7.6% 219 of 306
220 North Devon Devon 70.5 70.3 7,132 -6.6% 220 of 306
221 North West Leicestershire Leicestershire 70.4 67.4 7,873 -4.3% 221 of 306
222 Reigate and Banstead Surrey 70.4 74.4 11,197 +1.5% 222 of 306
223 Blaby Leicestershire 69.6 73.1 7,528 +1.8% 223 of 306
224 Basingstoke and Deane Hampshire 69.6 74.7 13,432 -2.9% 224 of 306
225 Copeland Cumbria 69.1 68.4 4,692 -8.5% 225 of 306
226 Adur West Sussex 69.0 72.8 4,479 -8.1% 226 of 306
227 Tandridge Surrey 68.8 71.9 6,233 +3.3% 227 of 306
228 Gedling Nottinghamshire 68.4 76.7 8,221 +5.5% 228 of 306
229 East Hertfordshire Hertfordshire 68.1 72.9 10,684 +2.8% 229 of 306
230 Huntingdonshire Cambridgeshire 67.9 72.9 12,940 -1.1% 230 of 306
231 Lichfield Staffordshire 67.7 69.8 7,576 +6.3% 231 of 306
232 Tunbridge Wells Kent 67.5 67.9 8,081 +0.4% 232 of 306
233 Staffordshire Moorlands Staffordshire 67.4 73.3 6,517 +1.8% 233 of 306
234 Three Rivers Hertfordshire 67.1 70.8 6,432 -0.1% 234 of 306
235 Cheshire East Cheshire 67.0 69.8 28,232 +3.1% 235 of 306
236 Tonbridge and Malling Kent 66.8 68.4 9,137 +0.6% 236 of 306
237 Hinckley and Bosworth Leicestershire 66.4 69.9 7,748 -3.8% 237 of 306
238 Melton Leicestershire 66.3 68.4 3,582 -8.7% 238 of 306
239 North Hertfordshire Hertfordshire 65.7 68.4 9,015 -3.6% 239 of 306
240 Windsor and Maidenhead Berkshire 65.7 66.6 10,434 -1.4% 240 of 306
241 King's Lynn and West Norfolk Norfolk 65.6 67.9 10,245 -2.6% 241 of 306
242 Mole Valley Surrey 65.5 65.7 5,808 +4.1% 242 of 306
243 West Berkshire Berkshire 65.5 63.6 10,809 -4.3% 243 of 306
244 Wychavon Worcestershire 65.4 69.0 9,029 -0.3% 244 of 306
245 Bracknell Forest Berkshire 65.4 72.5 8,552 -0.5% 245 of 306
246 Eastleigh Hampshire 65.1 70.0 9,302 -0.8% 246 of 306
247 Stratford-on-Avon Warwickshire 64.3 67.9 9,402 -0.2% 247 of 306
248 Winchester Hampshire 62.9 61.5 8,532 +4.6% 248 of 306
249 Sevenoaks Kent 62.7 64.2 7,691 -3.7% 249 of 306
250 Buckinghamshire Buckinghamshire 62.3 66.3 36,056 -1.0% 250 of 306
251 West Lancashire Lancashire 62.3 64.8 7,597 -12.2% 251 of 306
252 Castle Point Essex 62.1 69.0 5,624 +2.4% 252 of 306
253 East Riding of Yorkshire East Riding of Yorkshire 61.7 66.0 21,952 +1.7% 253 of 306
254 South Derbyshire Derbyshire 61.6 73.1 7,232 -6.3% 254 of 306
255 Elmbridge Surrey 61.3 61.2 8,700 +4.4% 255 of 306
256 Braintree Essex 61.3 69.2 10,070 -3.0% 256 of 306
257 Bromsgrove Worcestershire 61.0 63.3 6,198 -5.8% 257 of 306
258 Eden Cumbria 60.9 62.4 3,425 -6.7% 258 of 306
259 Uttlesford Essex 60.9 60.9 5,789 +0.2% 259 of 306
260 Surrey Heath Surrey 60.9 62.2 5,751 -2.2% 260 of 306
261 Central Bedfordshire Bedfordshire 60.8 69.2 19,207 -2.9% 262 of 306
262 Herefordshire Herefordshire 60.8 62.2 11,617 -3.0% 261 of 306
263 Wiltshire Wiltshire 60.7 62.5 31,787 +0.0% 263 of 306
264 Fareham Hampshire 60.5 60.7 6,986 +2.4% 264 of 306
265 Test Valley Hampshire 60.4 63.4 8,166 -2.4% 266 of 306
266 West Suffolk Suffolk 60.4 61.5 11,384 -0.6% 265 of 306
267 Oadby and Wigston Leicestershire 60.2 68.3 3,715 -9.6% 267 of 306
268 East Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire 60.0 67.0 5,574 +10.6% 268 of 306
269 Mid Sussex West Sussex 60.0 64.6 9,703 +2.4% 269 of 306
270 South Lakeland Cumbria 59.5 59.0 6,298 +1.9% 270 of 306
271 Teignbridge Devon 58.7 63.0 8,128 -3.5% 271 of 306
272 Mid Devon Devon 58.4 63.4 4,963 -7.4% 272 of 306
273 South Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire 58.4 62.2 10,068 +9.8% 273 of 306
274 New Forest Hampshire 58.2 58.0 10,252 -8.0% 274 of 306
275 South Staffordshire Staffordshire 58.1 62.7 6,644 +4.4% 275 of 306
276 Shropshire Shropshire 58.0 60.1 19,279 -5.6% 276 of 306
277 Breckland Norfolk 57.7 63.0 8,459 -0.1% 277 of 306
278 East Suffolk Suffolk 57.6 58.8 14,380 +2.2% 278 of 306
279 Horsham West Sussex 56.3 59.6 8,524 +0.7% 279 of 306
280 Malvern Hills Worcestershire 56.2 59.9 4,676 +2.5% 280 of 306
281 Derbyshire Dales Derbyshire 55.3 53.9 3,967 +0.6% 281 of 306
282 Torridge Devon 54.8 59.7 3,826 -2.3% 282 of 306
283 North Kesteven Lincolnshire 54.4 57.8 6,666 +5.7% 283 of 306
284 Rushcliffe Nottinghamshire 54.4 59.8 6,890 +6.8% 284 of 306
285 Wealden East Sussex 54.1 59.2 9,033 +9.4% 285 of 306
286 Dorset Dorset 53.2 55.1 20,740 -6.5% 286 of 306
287 Vale of White Horse Oxfordshire 53.1 57.8 7,923 -2.0% 287 of 306
288 Harborough Leicestershire 50.9 54.8 5,331 -0.9% 288 of 306
289 Rochford Essex 50.8 57.7 4,561 +4.8% 289 of 306
290 North Norfolk Norfolk 50.7 50.8 5,232 +8.4% 290 of 306
291 Ribble Valley Lancashire 50.5 53.2 3,320 -4.5% 291 of 306
292 Maldon Essex 50.0 55.6 3,456 +4.5% 292 of 306
293 West Oxfordshire Oxfordshire 49.7 52.2 6,008 +0.3% 293 of 306
294 South Norfolk Norfolk 48.8 50.3 7,239 -1.7% 294 of 306
295 East Hampshire Hampshire 47.4 50.4 6,164 -6.4% 295 of 306
296 South Hams Devon 47.4 47.7 4,365 +4.2% 296 of 306
297 Rutland Rutland 46.9 45.7 1,943 +0.8% 297 of 306
298 East Devon Devon 46.9 50.9 7,414 -6.3% 298 of 306
299 South Oxfordshire Oxfordshire 46.8 50.2 7,327 -2.5% 299 of 306
300 Babergh Suffolk 45.8 49.8 4,439 +0.8% 300 of 306
301 West Devon Devon 45.1 48.0 2,655 +1.3% 301 of 306
302 Wokingham Berkshire 44.8 48.5 8,392 -5.4% 302 of 306
303 Hart Hampshire 44.4 47.4 4,575 -4.4% 303 of 306
304 Waverley Surrey 43.9 45.3 5,896 +1.1% 304 of 306
305 Mid Suffolk Suffolk 40.7 45.7 4,509 +4.3% 305 of 306
306 Broadland Norfolk 39.5 43.7 5,450 -2.5% 306 of 306

Home Office recorded crime, published at data.police.uk under the Open Government Licence. The ranking uses ONS mid-year resident estimates, which is what the rest of the field publishes. The second column divides the same crimes by the Census 2021 workday population, everyone who is in the area during the working day rather than only those who sleep there. Where the two disagree sharply the place is a town centre, and the workday figure is the fairer one. Census day fell under Covid restrictions with widespread home working, so central London workday counts are lower than a normal year. Rank 1 in the England and Wales column is the highest recorded resident rate in the country.

Left out of this table

These areas have published pages but no place in a ranking, because their police force has not filed a full twelve months. A short total is indistinguishable from a fall in crime, and every one of them would otherwise sit near the safe end of the table on nothing but the missing returns.

Area Force Last month filed
Cheltenham Gloucestershire Constabulary January 2026
Cotswold Gloucestershire Constabulary January 2026
Forest of Dean Gloucestershire Constabulary January 2026
Gloucester Gloucestershire Constabulary January 2026
Stroud Gloucestershire Constabulary January 2026
Tewkesbury Gloucestershire Constabulary January 2026
Bolton Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Bury Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Manchester Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Oldham Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Rochdale Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Salford Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Stockport Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Tameside Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Trafford Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Wigan Greater Manchester Police August 2022
Craven North Yorkshire Police June 2026
Hambleton North Yorkshire Police June 2026
Harrogate North Yorkshire Police June 2026
Richmondshire North Yorkshire Police June 2026
Ryedale North Yorkshire Police June 2026
Scarborough North Yorkshire Police June 2026
Selby North Yorkshire Police June 2026
York North Yorkshire Police June 2026

The other end of the table

This table runs from the highest rate. For the same areas ranked the other way, see the safest places to live. To put two specific places side by side, use the comparison tool.

Highest crime rates by county

The same table cut to one county, for counties with at least three published areas.

Ranked by a single offence

The same areas over the same year, ranked one offence at a time. The order changes a great deal between them: shoplifting concentrates where the shops are, bicycle theft where the bicycles are, and neither follows the overall rate.

Figures cover the 12 months to July 2026, the most recent month any force has published. Police data arrives roughly two months in arrears.