Crime by police force area

45 areas with loaded street-crime data. These pages use police force boundaries from data.police.uk — not city-council or postcode boundaries.

• Avon and Somerset

  Avon and Somerset Police

  Bristol, Bath, Somerset, and surrounding areas in the Avon and Somerset Police area.

• Bedfordshire

  Bedfordshire Police

  Bedford, Luton, and the rest of the Bedfordshire Police area.

• Birmingham

  West Midlands Police

  West Midlands Police area — Birmingham, Coventry, Wolverhampton, and the rest of the West Midlands. Not Birmingham city council boundaries alone.

• Brighton

  Sussex Police

  Sussex Police area — Brighton and Hove, East Sussex, and West Sussex. Not Brighton and Hove boundaries alone.

• Btp

  Btp Police

  The Btp police force area in England and Wales. This is a force boundary, not a single city or neighbourhood.

• Cambridgeshire

  Cambridgeshire Constabulary

  Cambridge, Peterborough, and the Cambridgeshire Constabulary area.

• Cardiff

  South Wales Police

  South Wales Police area — Cardiff, Swansea, Bridgend, and surrounding areas. Not Cardiff local-authority boundaries alone.

• Cheshire

  Cheshire Constabulary

  Chester, Warrington, and the Cheshire Constabulary area.

• City of London

  City of London Police

  The Square Mile only — the City of London Police area. Most of London is covered separately by the Metropolitan Police (/crime/london/).

• Cleveland

  Cleveland Police

  Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, and the Cleveland Police area.

• Cumbria

  Cumbria Constabulary

  Carlisle, Barrow-in-Furness, and the Cumbria Constabulary area.

• Derbyshire

  Derbyshire Constabulary

  Derby and the Derbyshire Constabulary area.

• Devon and Cornwall

  Devon and Cornwall Police

  Plymouth, Exeter, Cornwall, and the Devon and Cornwall Police area.

• Dorset

  Dorset Police

  Bournemouth, Poole, and the Dorset Police area.

• Durham

  Durham Constabulary

  County Durham, Darlington, and the Durham Constabulary area.

• Dyfed-Powys

  Dyfed-Powys Police

  Mid and west Wales, including Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, and Powys.

• Essex

  Essex Police

  Chelmsford, Southend-on-Sea, Colchester, and the Essex Police area.

• Gloucestershire

  Gloucestershire Constabulary

  Gloucester, Cheltenham, and the Gloucestershire Constabulary area.

• Gwent

  Gwent Police

  Newport, Caerphilly, and the Gwent Police area in south-east Wales.

• Hampshire

  Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

  Southampton, Portsmouth, Winchester, and the Hampshire and Isle of Wight area.

• Hertfordshire

  Hertfordshire Constabulary

  Watford, St Albans, Hemel Hempstead, and the Hertfordshire Constabulary area.

• Humberside

  Humberside Police

  Hull, Grimsby, Scunthorpe, and the Humberside Police area.

• Kent

  Kent Police

  Maidstone, Canterbury, Medway, and the Kent Police area.

• Lancashire

  Lancashire Constabulary

  Blackpool, Preston, Blackburn, and the Lancashire Constabulary area.

• Leeds

  West Yorkshire Police

  West Yorkshire Police area — Leeds, Bradford, Wakefield, Huddersfield, and the rest of West Yorkshire. Not Leeds city council boundaries alone.

• Leicester

  Leicestershire Police

  Leicestershire Police area — Leicester plus Loughborough and the wider county. Not Leicester city boundaries alone.

• Lincolnshire

  Lincolnshire Police

  Lincoln and the Lincolnshire Police area.

• Liverpool

  Merseyside Police

  Merseyside Police area — Liverpool plus Wirral, St Helens, and the rest of Merseyside. Not Liverpool city council boundaries alone.

• London

  Metropolitan Police

  Metropolitan Police area — most of London, excluding the separate City of London Police area (the Square Mile). This is the police force boundary used by data.police.uk, not a single London borough.

• Manchester

  Greater Manchester Police

  Greater Manchester Police area — Manchester plus Salford, Bolton, Stockport, Oldham, and the other Greater Manchester boroughs. Not Manchester city council boundaries alone.

• Newcastle

  Northumbria Police

  Northumbria Police area — Newcastle upon Tyne, Sunderland, and surrounding areas. Not Newcastle city boundaries alone.

• Norfolk

  Norfolk Constabulary

  Norwich and the Norfolk Constabulary area.

• North Wales

  North Wales Police

  North Wales, including Wrexham, Flintshire, and Gwynedd.

• North Yorkshire

  North Yorkshire Police

  The North Yorkshire police force area in England and Wales. This is a force boundary, not a single city or neighbourhood.

• Northamptonshire

  Northamptonshire Police

  Northampton and the Northamptonshire Police area.

• Northern Ireland

  Northern Ireland Police

  The Northern Ireland police force area in England and Wales. This is a force boundary, not a single city or neighbourhood.

• Nottingham

  Nottinghamshire Police

  Nottinghamshire Police area — Nottingham and the wider county. Not Nottingham city boundaries alone.

• Sheffield

  South Yorkshire Police

  South Yorkshire Police area — Sheffield, Doncaster, Rotherham, and Barnsley. Not Sheffield city boundaries alone.

• Staffordshire

  Staffordshire Police

  Stoke-on-Trent and the Staffordshire Police area.

• Suffolk

  Suffolk Constabulary

  Ipswich and the Suffolk Constabulary area.

• Surrey

  Surrey Police

  Guildford and the Surrey Police area.

• Thames Valley

  Thames Valley Police

  Oxford, Reading, Milton Keynes, and the Thames Valley Police area.

• Warwickshire

  Warwickshire Police

  Warwick, Rugby, and the Warwickshire Police area.

• West Mercia

  West Mercia Police

  Worcester, Hereford, Shrewsbury, and the West Mercia Police area.

• Wiltshire

  Wiltshire Police

  Swindon and the Wiltshire Police area.

How to read these pages

• Figures are counts of published police records, not a safety score.
• A page titled London, Manchester, or Leeds still uses the parent police force dataset for that area.
• Police force areas are much larger than a single street or postcode.
• For a 0.5 km postcode view, use a neighbourhood report.
• Moving home? Read how to check crime rates before buying a house.
• See the methodology and what a police force area covers.