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Cumberland crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 23,068 street-crime records for the Cumberland council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 84.4 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 79.6 for Cumbria Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Cumberland council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Cumberland: 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
23,068
Latest month (August 2026)
2,092
Year-on-year
+1.5%
Month-by-month totals
2,2490
1.8k
Sep
1.9k
Oct
1.7k
Nov
1.9k
Dec
1.8k
Jan
1.7k
Feb
1.9k
Mar
2.0k
Apr
2.0k
May
2.0k
Jun
2.2k
Jul
2.1k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
1,792
October 2025
1,885
November 2025
1,682
December 2025
1,865
January 2026
1,832
February 2026
1,739
March 2026
1,933
April 2026
1,983
May 2026
1,998
June 2026
2,018
July 2026
2,249
August 2026
2,092
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.
Cumberland council area
84.4
Cumbria Constabulary
79.6
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.
23,068 records and 273,263 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 Cumberland 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 offences47.3%
10,900 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Public order10.7%
2,472 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson9.8%
2,267 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting6.3%
1,449 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft5.7%
1,324 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Anti-social behaviour5.2%
1,196 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Drugs4.5%
1,028 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Other crime3.0%
701 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in the Cumberland council area
Held back: the Cumberland 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 Cumberland council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Cumberland council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000063), which can differ from the place people call Cumberland.
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 Cumberland. 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.