Crime · Reading

Reported crime in Reading

Name: Reading crime statistics
Creator: police.uk
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

22,645 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 105 per 1,000 residents.

Total incidents

22,645

Rate / 1,000

105

By category

Category	Incidents	Share
Violence and sexual offences	8,130	36%
Shoplifting	3,232	14%
Anti social behaviour	2,306	10%
Other theft	1,835	8%
Public order	1,763	8%
Criminal damage and arson	1,414	6%
Vehicle crime	938	4%
Burglary	713	3%
Drugs	635	3%
Bicycle theft	476	2%
Other crime	411	2%
Robbery	360	2%
Theft from the person	275	1%
Possession of weapons	157	1%

Category by month

Category	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Total
Violence and sexual offences	716	741	706	665	601	643	630	573	711	677	734	733	8130
Shoplifting	267	287	212	189	228	189	265	241	359	341	337	317	3232
Anti social behaviour	285	251	163	192	169	134	144	157	184	192	217	218	2306
Other theft	170	163	181	164	157	134	156	132	142	147	153	136	1835
Public order	184	170	147	142	130	115	115	130	146	136	183	165	1763
Criminal damage and arson	151	137	116	107	105	111	103	91	129	110	116	138	1414
Vehicle crime	76	69	102	110	79	75	55	74	72	62	81	83	938
Burglary	86	58	64	56	90	80	53	28	62	39	50	47	713
Drugs	56	72	45	35	72	72	46	40	41	43	61	52	635
Bicycle theft	41	39	52	63	55	27	28	24	23	43	44	37	476
Other crime	24	36	34	34	27	34	34	39	45	37	36	31	411
Robbery	28	31	17	28	26	18	27	31	40	36	47	31	360
Theft from the person	29	40	18	21	27	27	11	19	25	23	16	19	275
Possession of weapons	9	18	10	17	15	9	11	9	8	14	15	22	157
Total	2122	2112	1867	1823	1781	1668	1678	1588	1987	1900	2090	2029	22645

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police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Reading, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 216,211.