Crime and justice
Shoplifting
Shoplifting offences recorded by police in 12 months, by area.
- 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.
- England31,660 of 33,755 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Wales1,917 of 1,917 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Scotland0 of 7,392 neighbourhoods have a figure
- Northern Ireland3,780 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 994 more
How it is made
Open Index shows the figures as Police.uk publishes them, for the areas they were published for: nations, regions, councils, wards, middle areas and neighbourhoods.
Counts for larger areas are added up 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 reported to police and recorded by them, not all the crime that happens.
- Shoplifting is counted where the shop is, so town and city centres with many shops have high counts.
- 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.
- Counts mostly follow how many people live in, work in or visit an area. To compare areas, use the recorded crime rate.
- 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.
- 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
Seven groups with about the same number of areas each, worked out from the latest period and held for every period, so colours mean the same over time.
Source and licence
Police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, published by the Single Online Home National Digital Team
- Edition
- 2026-08.zip
- Published
- 30 September 2026
- Fetched by Open Index
- 15 October 2026
- Licence
- Open Government Licence 3.0
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