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Barnsley crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 27,048 street-crime records for the Barnsley council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 110.7 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 127.4 for South Yorkshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Barnsley council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Barnsley: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
27,048
Latest month (August 2026)
2,468
Year-on-year
+0.5%
Month-by-month totals
2,4870
2.2k
Sep
2.3k
Oct
2.2k
Nov
2.1k
Dec
2.0k
Jan
1.9k
Feb
2.3k
Mar
2.2k
Apr
2.4k
May
2.4k
Jun
2.5k
Jul
2.5k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
2,230
October 2025
2,280
November 2025
2,153
December 2025
2,050
January 2026
2,041
February 2026
1,932
March 2026
2,326
April 2026
2,247
May 2026
2,437
June 2026
2,397
July 2026
2,487
August 2026
2,468
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
Published street-crime records (including anti-social behaviour), September 2025 to August 2026, per 1,000 usual residents in the Census 2021.
Barnsley council area
110.7
South Yorkshire Police
127.4
Residents are the Census 2021 usual residents of every postcode the ONS Postcode Directory places in this council area, added up by CrimeMapsUK from the census postcode counts. Records are assigned through the same postcodes, so both numbers cover the same ground. The total can differ slightly from the council's official population.
27,048 records and 244,388 residents. Residents-only rates overstate crime where many people visit who do not live there, such as city centres, stations, and retail parks. Residents are counted at March 2021 while records are current, so areas with many newer homes can read higher.
No England and Wales comparison is shown, because not every force involved has published every month of this window.
Rates cover England and Wales only. Residents: Office for National Statistics, Census 2021 postcode estimates, Open Government Licence v3.0. How rates are built.
Top crime categories
Share of the Barnsley council area's records in the same trailing window. The black line on each bar marks the England and Wales share for the same months.
Violence and sexual offences35.9%
9,703 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour16.5%
4,473 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson9.3%
2,505 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order7.2%
1,934 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting6.9%
1,867 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Vehicle crime5.4%
1,460 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Other theft5.4%
1,449 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary5.0%
1,349 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the Barnsley council area
Records by part of the Barnsley council area: the north-east 12,423, the east 10,738, the south-east 2,188, the north 1,297, the west 842, the south-west 110, the north-west 101, the south 95, the centre 55.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Barnsley council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Barnsley council area's records placed outside these hexagons are not drawn, so the map's counts won't add up to the page's total. Police place each record at an approximate public point, so this shows which parts of the Barnsley council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Barnsley council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Barnsley council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E08000038), which can differ from the place people call Barnsley.
Published locations are approximate, and each record counts for the council area of its nearest postcode, using the council codes in the ONS Postcode Directory. Counts near the boundary are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Other sites can show a different figure for Barnsley. These counts include anti-social behaviour, cover the 12 published months shown, and assign each record by its nearest postcode. The rate divides by Census 2021 residents of the same postcodes, not by a later mid-year population estimate.
Districts with a page and at least 5% of their live postcodes in this council area. A district can cross a council boundary, so its page counts records on both sides.