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Cornwall crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 41,483 street-crime records for the Cornwall council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.2% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 72.7 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 81.8 for Devon and Cornwall Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Cornwall council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Cornwall: 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
41,483
Latest month (August 2026)
3,875
Year-on-year
-2.2%
Month-by-month totals
4,0210
3.4k
Sep
3.5k
Oct
3.4k
Nov
3.1k
Dec
3.0k
Jan
3.0k
Feb
3.4k
Mar
3.5k
Apr
3.7k
May
3.6k
Jun
4.0k
Jul
3.9k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
3,449
October 2025
3,498
November 2025
3,383
December 2025
3,083
January 2026
3,041
February 2026
2,972
March 2026
3,428
April 2026
3,467
May 2026
3,692
June 2026
3,574
July 2026
4,021
August 2026
3,875
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.
Cornwall council area
72.7
Devon and Cornwall Police
81.8
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.
41,483 records and 570,238 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.
Which parts of Cornwall have the lowest and highest published crime rates?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. These are published street-crime records per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, as each area's own page and the crime rate rankings gave them on 31 October 2026. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit and few live, such as a town centre. Areas with fewer than 5,000 residents, and areas whose own page withholds a rate, are not ranked. How rankings are built.
Postcode sectors
Of the 57 postcode sectors mostly in Cornwall with a ranked rate, TR11 5 has the lowest, 26.7 per 1,000 residents, and TR18 2 the highest, 193.8, September 2025 to August 2026.
Of the 33 postcode districts mostly in Cornwall with a ranked rate, TR3 has the lowest, 33.6 per 1,000 residents, and TR1 the highest, 136.8, September 2025 to August 2026.
Share of the Cornwall 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 offences47.6%
19,731 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour12.1%
5,023 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson10.2%
4,222 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft7.6%
3,152 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order6.3%
2,607 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting5.3%
2,204 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary2.3%
952 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Other crime2.2%
933 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in the Cornwall council area
Held back: the Cornwall 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 Cornwall council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Cornwall council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000052), which can differ from the place people call Cornwall.
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 Cornwall. 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.