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Derby crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 36,660 street-crime records for the Derby council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.0% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 140.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 98.8 for Derbyshire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Derby council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Derby: 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
36,660
Latest month (August 2026)
3,284
Year-on-year
+7.0%
Month-by-month totals
3,3780
2.9k
Sep
3.0k
Oct
2.8k
Nov
2.9k
Dec
2.7k
Jan
2.7k
Feb
3.3k
Mar
3.2k
Apr
3.3k
May
3.3k
Jun
3.4k
Jul
3.3k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
2,948
October 2025
2,962
November 2025
2,834
December 2025
2,873
January 2026
2,694
February 2026
2,652
March 2026
3,264
April 2026
3,181
May 2026
3,267
June 2026
3,323
July 2026
3,378
August 2026
3,284
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.
Derby council area
140.3
Derbyshire Constabulary
98.8
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.
36,660 records and 261,343 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 Derby 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 offences41.2%
15,098 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour12.6%
4,602 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order9.4%
3,428 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting7.7%
2,821 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.2%
2,264 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft5.8%
2,140 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Drugs5.4%
1,982 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Vehicle crime3.4%
1,264 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the Derby council area
Records by part of the Derby council area: the centre 7,029, the south-east 6,857, the north-east 5,909, the north 4,877, the west 3,887, the north-west 2,997, the south-west 2,340, the south 1,819, the east 1,808.
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 Derby council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Derby 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 Derby council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Derby council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Derby council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000015), which can differ from the place people call Derby.
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 Derby. 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.