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Council area
Birmingham crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 146,827 street-crime records for the Birmingham council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.5% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 128.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 110.5 for West Midlands Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Birmingham council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Birmingham: 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
146,827
Latest month (August 2026)
12,950
Year-on-year
-0.5%
Month-by-month totals
14,2960
12k
Sep
12k
Oct
12k
Nov
11k
Dec
11k
Jan
11k
Feb
12k
Mar
12k
Apr
13k
May
13k
Jun
14k
Jul
13k
Aug
Striped bars: only some of the forces here published that month, so its count is incomplete. The table names the force.
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
11,816
October 2025
12,125
November 2025
11,629
December 2025
11,340
January 2026
11,177
February 2026
10,673 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
12,188 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
12,111 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
13,184 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
13,338 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
14,296 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
12,950 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
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.
Birmingham council area
128.3
West Midlands Police
110.5
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.
146,827 records and 1,144,664 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 Birmingham 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 offences42.9%
62,925 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Shoplifting8.7%
12,712 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Vehicle crime8.3%
12,191 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Criminal damage and arson7.7%
11,368 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order6.3%
9,182 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft6.2%
9,059 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Burglary4.6%
6,782 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Anti-social behaviour3.8%
5,611 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Where records cluster in the Birmingham council area
Records by part of the Birmingham council area: the south 35,198, the south-west 29,941, the south-east 20,647, the east 18,642, the north-east 16,056, the north 11,908, the west 11,460, the north-west 7,267, the centre 1,776.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Birmingham council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Birmingham 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 Birmingham council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Striped months add only the records that were published. Explore the Birmingham council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Birmingham council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E08000025), which can differ from the place people call Birmingham.
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 Birmingham. 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.