Recorded crime rate
Crimes and anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by police in 12 months, for every 1,000 people who live in the area.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates
- Published by
- Police.uk
- Level of detail
- Neighbourhood
- Published for
- Nation, Region, Council, Ward, Middle area and Neighbourhood
- Covers
- England, Wales and Northern Ireland
- Updates
- Monthly
- Latest period
- August 2026
- Published
- 30 September 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Where it covers
- England
- Wales
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland(not covered)
Scotland publishes recorded crime by council. It has its own layers.
- England31,637 of 33,755 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Wales1,916 of 1,917 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Scotland0 of 7,392 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Northern Ireland2,893 of 3,780 neighbourhoods have a figure
1,000 neighbourhoods have no figure for August 2026. The map hatches each one and gives the reason.
- Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester. Bolton 005A, Bolton 005B, Bolton 001A, Bolton 003A, Bolton 003B, Bolton 003C and 989 more
- Fewer than 10 crimes were recorded in these 12 months, so no rate is shown. Bexley 002C, Croydon 030B, Newham 011D, Newham 015E, Redbridge 032C
How it is made
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
The crimes and anti-social behaviour incidents recorded in the 12 months, divided by the area's residents, times 1,000. Residents are each area's population in the register: mid-2024 estimates for neighbourhoods and middle areas, mid-2025 for councils, regions and nations. A ward uses the neighbourhoods added up into it. A region or nation that holds councils with no figure uses the population of the councils that are counted. Areas with fewer than 10 crimes in the 12 months have no rate.
Rates for larger areas are worked out again from their own counts and populations, never averaged from neighbourhoods.
Zoom in past neighbourhood level and the map keeps the neighbourhood shapes and says so, rather than inventing detail.
- NationAugust 2024 to August 2026 (3 months)
- RegionAugust 2024 to August 2026 (3 months)
- CouncilAugust 2024 to August 2026 (3 months)
- WardAugust 2024 to August 2026 (3 months)
- Middle areaAugust 2024 to August 2026 (3 months)
- NeighbourhoodAugust 2024 to August 2026 (3 months)
Before you use it
- These are crimes and anti-social behaviour incidents reported to police and recorded by them, not all the crime that happens.
- The rate is per resident. Places that many people work in or visit, such as Westminster and the City of London, have far more crime than their residents alone would suggest, so their rates look very high. The same is true of town centres, shopping centres and stations at neighbourhood level.
- Each 12 months ends with the month named, so August 2026 means September 2025 to August 2026.
- Each crime is counted in the neighbourhood of the map point police.uk gives it, which is near where it happened, not an address. Areas are added up from neighbourhoods.
- Greater Manchester has no figures: its police force has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019. Gloucestershire has none that include February to August 2026.
- Crimes recorded by British Transport Police on the railway are left out, because it has supplied no data since February 2025.
- About 1.5% of crimes have no location and are in no area figure.
- An area with fewer than 10 crimes in the 12 months has no rate.
- Ward figures add up the neighbourhoods that sit mostly inside each ward, so they are close to, but not exactly, the ward's own.
Colours on the map
Fixed breaks, held for every period, so colours mean the same over time.
How Open Index describes it
Page text on Open Index comes from this layer’s sentence rules, filled in with published figures. For Hackney:
In the 12 months to August 2026, police recorded crimes and anti-social behaviour in Hackney at a rate of 146.2 per 1,000 people.
That compares with 123.5 per 1,000 people across London.
Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.
Source and licence
- Edition
- 2026-08.zip
- Published
- 30 September 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
Credit the calculation as: Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.