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Crime · Merelake
Reported crime in Merelake
1,011 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 62 per 1,000 residents.
Total incidents
1,011
Rate / 1,000
62
Categories
14
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 432 | 43% |
| Anti social behaviour | 122 | 12% |
| Public order | 112 | 11% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 76 | 8% |
| Other theft | 69 | 7% |
| Shoplifting | 55 | 5% |
| Burglary | 36 | 4% |
| Other crime | 28 | 3% |
| Drugs | 25 | 2% |
| Vehicle crime | 23 | 2% |
| Bicycle theft | 14 | 1% |
| Possession of weapons | 14 | 1% |
| Theft from the person | 3 | 0% |
| Robbery | 2 | 0% |
Category by month
| Category | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 30 | 30 | 33 | 45 | 29 | 23 | 47 | 30 | 33 | 48 | 47 | 37 | 432 |
| Anti social behaviour | 5 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 16 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 10 | 122 |
| Public order | 10 | 10 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 13 | 7 | 17 | 11 | 11 | 7 | 112 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 4 | 4 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 76 |
| Other theft | 5 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 8 | 9 | 3 | 69 |
| Shoplifting | 4 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 55 |
| Burglary | 10 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 1 | 36 | |
| Other crime | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 28 |
| Drugs | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 25 | |
| Vehicle crime | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 23 | ||
| Bicycle theft | 5 | 5 | 4 | 14 | |||||||||
| Possession of weapons | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 14 | |||||
| Theft from the person | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| Robbery | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Total | 77 | 70 | 64 | 87 | 55 | 67 | 99 | 87 | 110 | 105 | 114 | 76 | 1011 |
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police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Merelake, Sept 2025 to Aug 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 16,281.