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Crime · Town
Reported crime in Town
1,219 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 154 per 1,000 residents.
Total incidents
1,219
Rate / 1,000
154
Categories
14
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 366 | 30% |
| Shoplifting | 249 | 20% |
| Anti social behaviour | 216 | 18% |
| Public order | 115 | 9% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 62 | 5% |
| Other theft | 60 | 5% |
| Vehicle crime | 55 | 5% |
| Drugs | 27 | 2% |
| Burglary | 24 | 2% |
| Other crime | 17 | 1% |
| Robbery | 10 | 1% |
| Theft from the person | 9 | 1% |
| Possession of weapons | 8 | 1% |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0% |
Category by month
| Category | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 26 | 25 | 31 | 35 | 35 | 14 | 35 | 33 | 33 | 26 | 39 | 34 | 366 |
| Shoplifting | 24 | 24 | 15 | 18 | 12 | 20 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 26 | 25 | 30 | 249 |
| Anti social behaviour | 34 | 24 | 13 | 17 | 12 | 18 | 24 | 20 | 8 | 14 | 20 | 12 | 216 |
| Public order | 9 | 10 | 5 | 13 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 15 | 14 | 7 | 8 | 115 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 9 | 1 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 7 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 62 |
| Other theft | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 8 | 60 |
| Vehicle crime | 7 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 55 | |
| Drugs | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 27 | |
| Burglary | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 24 | |
| Other crime | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 17 | ||||
| Robbery | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | |||||
| Theft from the person | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | ||||||
| Possession of weapons | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 121 | 103 | 88 | 109 | 83 | 96 | 119 | 88 | 86 | 100 | 114 | 112 | 1219 |
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police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Town, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 7,895.