Crime and justice

Street-level crime

Every crime and anti-social behaviour incident recorded by police, at the approximate map point police.uk gives it, one month at a time.

Published by: Police.uk
Level of detail: Map point
Published for: Map point
Covers: England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Updates: Monthly
Data period: Not recorded for this layer. The dates below are when it was published and fetched.
Published: 30 September 2026
Fetched by Open Index: 15 October 2026
Licence: Open Government Licence 3.0

Where it covers

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

Open Index shows the figures as Police.uk publishes them, for the areas they were published for: map points.

Counts for larger areas are added up from map points.

Approximate location. Police.uk moves every crime to the nearest of a fixed set of map points, so one dot gathers crimes from nearby streets.
Each map point stands for at least 8 postal addresses, or none, so a dot is never one home. Open Index shows the points exactly where police.uk puts them and never moves or splits them.
These are crimes and anti-social behaviour incidents reported to police and recorded by them, not all the crime that happens.
Outcomes keep changing for months after a crime first appears, and each month's file shows the latest outcome only. The Police Service of Northern Ireland and British Transport Police publish no outcomes, and anti-social behaviour has none.
About 1.5% of crimes have no location, so they are not on the map.
When the map is zoomed out, nearby map points are grouped into one circle with the total count.
Greater Manchester has no map points, because its police force has supplied almost no data since July 2019. Gloucestershire has none for February to August 2026.

Each point on the map, in one colour

Police forces in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, published by the Single Online Home National Digital Team

Credit line

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: data.police.uk.

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