# 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.

## Facts

- Published by: Police.uk
- Level of detail: Neighbourhood
- Updates: Monthly
- History: Since August 2024
- Licence: Open Government Licence 3.0
- Method: Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates
- Levels: Nation, Region, Council, Postcode area, Postcode district, Town, Ward, Middle area, Neighbourhood

## How it is worked out

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.

## Periods

| Level | First | Latest | Periods |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nation | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |
| Region | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |
| Council | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |
| Postcode area | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |
| Postcode district | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |
| Town | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |
| Ward | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |
| Middle area | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |
| Neighbourhood | August 2024 | August 2026 | 3 |

## Coverage

| Nation | Areas | With a figure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| England | 33755 | 31637 |
| Wales | 1917 | 1916 |
| Scotland | 7392 | 0 |
| Northern Ireland | 3780 | 2893 |

Scotland publishes recorded crime by council. It has its own layers.

## Gaps

- Greater Manchester Police has supplied almost no data to police.uk since July 2019, so there is no figure for Greater Manchester: 995 (Bolton 005A, Bolton 005B, Bolton 001A, Bolton 003A, Bolton 003B, Bolton 003C)
- Fewer than 10 crimes were recorded in these 12 months, so no rate is shown: 5 (Bexley 002C, Croydon 030B, Newham 011D, Newham 015E, Redbridge 032C)

## Caveats

- 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.

## Example: 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.

https://openindex.co.uk/hackney

## Sources

### Police recorded crime and outcomes (data.police.uk)

- Publisher: Police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, published by the Single Online Home National Digital Team
- Licence: [Open Government Licence 3.0](https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/)
- Edition: 2026-08.zip
- Published: 30 September 2026
- Fetched: 15 October 2026
- Updates: monthly
- Credit: Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: data.police.uk.
- Publisher's page: https://data.police.uk/about/

## Use it

- [The map](https://openindex.co.uk/map/recorded-crime-rate)
- [Ranking](https://openindex.co.uk/rankings/recorded-crime-rate/uk)
- Download (Neighbourhood): https://data.openindex.co.uk/s/2026.10.9/downloads/layers/crime-rate/neighbourhood.csv
- API: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/layers/crime-rate

## How to cite

Source: Open Index, openindex.co.uk. Link to this page, https://openindex.co.uk/sources/recorded-crime-rate.

Open Index's own text and the figures it works out are licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Source data keeps its publishers' licences, named with each figure. Give each figure's period and source with it.

- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: data.police.uk.
- Worked out by Open Index from police.uk crime records and ONS and NISRA population estimates.

Snapshot 2026.10.9. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/sources/recorded-crime-rate