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Cheshire East crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 28,134 street-crime records for the Cheshire East council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 70.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 76.1 for Cheshire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Cheshire East council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Cheshire East: 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
28,134
Latest month (August 2026)
2,445
Year-on-year
+3.8%
Month-by-month totals
2,7550
2.1k
Sep
2.2k
Oct
2.1k
Nov
2.1k
Dec
2.2k
Jan
2.1k
Feb
2.4k
Mar
2.4k
Apr
2.6k
May
2.7k
Jun
2.8k
Jul
2.4k
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
2,116
October 2025
2,194
November 2025
2,122
December 2025
2,143
January 2026
2,238
February 2026
2,055 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
2,374 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
2,418 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
2,562 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
2,712 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
2,755 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
2,445 (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.
Cheshire East council area
70.5
Cheshire Constabulary
76.1
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.
28,134 records and 398,900 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 Cheshire East 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 offences44.0%
12,389 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Public order11.0%
3,088 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Anti-social behaviour9.3%
2,627 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting7.3%
2,045 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.4%
1,805 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft6.2%
1,737 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Drugs4.9%
1,382 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Burglary3.2%
903 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the Cheshire East council area
Held back: the Cheshire East council area's postcodes spread so far that even the crime map's zoomed-out hexagons would draw too small on a phone to read as areas. Explore the Cheshire East council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Cheshire East council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000049), which can differ from the place people call Cheshire East.
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 Cheshire East. 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.