# Crime and anti-social behaviour

Crimes and anti-social behaviour incidents recorded by police each month, by area, for the last 36 months.

## Facts

- Published by: Police.uk
- Level of detail: Neighbourhood
- Updates: Monthly
- History: Since September 2023
- Licence: Open Government Licence 3.0
- Levels: Nation, Region, Council, Postcode area, Postcode district, Town, Ward, Middle area, Neighbourhood

## Periods

| Level | First | Latest | Periods |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Nation | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |
| Region | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |
| Council | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |
| Postcode area | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |
| Postcode district | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |
| Town | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |
| Ward | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |
| Middle area | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |
| Neighbourhood | September 2023 | August 2026 | 36 |

## Coverage

| Nation | Areas | With a figure |
| --- | --- | --- |
| England | 33755 | 31660 |
| Wales | 1917 | 1917 |
| Scotland | 7392 | 0 |
| Northern Ireland | 3780 | 3780 |

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: 1000 (Bolton 005A, Bolton 005B, Bolton 001A, Bolton 003A, Bolton 003B, Bolton 003C)

## Caveats

- These are crimes and anti-social behaviour incidents reported to police and recorded by them, not all the crime that happens.
- Anti-social behaviour is included, as police.uk publishes it alongside crime. It has its own layer.
- 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 for 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.
- Forces send corrections for earlier months, so a month's count can change when the next archive comes out.
- Ward figures add up the neighbourhoods that sit mostly inside each ward, so they are close to, but not exactly, the ward's own.

## 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)
- Download (Neighbourhood): https://data.openindex.co.uk/s/2026.10.8/downloads/layers/crime-count/neighbourhood.csv
- API: https://openindex.co.uk/v1/layers/crime-count

## How to cite

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

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.

Snapshot 2026.10.8, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23508850. The HTML page: https://openindex.co.uk/sources/recorded-crime