Local Crime Map
Search a postcode or zoom in to street level to see crime locations reported in the last 12 months.
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Circle size and colour reflect how many crimes were recorded at that location in the last 12 months. Click a circle for details.
About this crime map
This map shows street-level crime and anti-social behaviour records published through data.police.uk. The data is supplied by police forces and is normally updated once a month. Each point on the map represents an anonymised location rather than the exact place where an incident happened.
The map is intended as a local guide, not as a precise address-level record. Crimes are grouped to nearby streets, public places or points of interest so that victims, witnesses and individual addresses are not identifiable. This means a crime shown as “on or near” a street may have taken place nearby, rather than at the exact point displayed.
The figures are useful for comparing broad local patterns, but they should not be treated as a complete measure of all crime. Some crimes are not reported to the police, some cannot be mapped, and changes in police recording practices can affect the number of recorded incidents over time.
What the crime types mean
Police.uk groups offences into broad categories. These categories are helpful for mapping and comparison, but each one can contain a wide range of offences with different levels of seriousness.
Anti-social behaviour
Incidents involving nuisance, harassment, disorderly behaviour or environmental problems that affect people’s quality of life.
Bicycle theft
Theft or taking without consent of a pedal cycle, including bikes stolen from streets, homes, sheds or public places.
Burglary
Offences where someone enters a home, business or other building intending to steal, cause damage or commit another offence.
Criminal damage and arson
Damage to property, buildings or vehicles, including deliberate damage by fire.
Drugs
Offences involving possession, supply, production or trafficking of controlled drugs.
Other crime
A mixed category covering offences that do not fit neatly elsewhere, such as forgery, perjury and other miscellaneous crimes.
Other theft
Theft offences not covered by categories such as burglary, shoplifting, vehicle crime or theft from the person.
Possession of weapons
Offences involving possession of a weapon, including knives, firearms or other articles intended to cause harm.
Public order
Behaviour that causes or is likely to cause fear, alarm, harassment or distress in public or private settings.
Robbery
Theft involving force, or the threat of force, against a person.
Shoplifting
Theft from shops, stalls or retail premises.
Theft from the person
Theft directly from someone, such as a wallet, phone, bag or cash, without the use or threat of force.
Vehicle crime
Theft of a vehicle, theft from a vehicle, attempted theft or interference with a vehicle.
Violence and sexual offences
A broad category covering offences against the person, from common assault through to more serious violent and sexual offences.
Category names are simplified for public mapping, so a single category can include offences of very different severity.
How accurate is the crime location data?
Crime locations on this map are approximate. Before publication, exact locations are replaced with nearby anonymous map points. These points are usually placed on streets, public places or commercial locations, and are chosen so that individual homes or victims cannot be identified.
A mapped point therefore means “near this location”, not “at this exact address”. This is why several crimes may appear at the same point, or why a point may appear on a nearby street, shopping area, park, station or other public feature.
Some crimes are not shown on the map. This can happen where the exact location was not known, where the offence happened while travelling between places, or where anonymising the location would move the point too far away from where the incident actually took place.
Outcomes should also be read with care. An outcome is the latest recorded status linked to a crime, and it may be added or updated months after the original incident. Some crimes may not yet have an outcome, and anti-social behaviour records do not always show what happened next.
What the data can and cannot tell you
Police recorded crime data is useful for exploring local patterns, recent reports and broad comparisons between areas. It can show, for example, whether a neighbourhood has more reports of vehicle crime, shoplifting, burglary or public order offences in the latest published months.
It is not a perfect measure of how much crime actually happens. Not every crime is reported, and police activity, recording rules and local enforcement priorities can change the number of incidents that appear in the data. A rise in recorded crime can sometimes reflect better reporting or recording rather than a simple rise in offending.
For long-term national trends, survey-based statistics such as the Crime Survey for England and Wales are often more suitable. For local mapping, street-level police data remains useful, but it is best read as an indication of recorded incidents rather than a complete picture of crime.
Source: crime and outcome data from data.police.uk, published under the Open Government Licence. For Scotland, street-level data may be limited because only British Transport Police data is available through this source.