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East Devon crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 7,434 street-crime records for the East Devon council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.2% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 49.3 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 East Devon council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call East Devon: 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
7,434
Latest month (August 2026)
698
Year-on-year
-2.2%
Month-by-month totals
7450
549
Sep
633
Oct
563
Nov
600
Dec
528
Jan
538
Feb
700
Mar
596
Apr
637
May
647
Jun
745
Jul
698
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
549
October 2025
633
November 2025
563
December 2025
600
January 2026
528
February 2026
538
March 2026
700
April 2026
596
May 2026
637
June 2026
647
July 2026
745
August 2026
698
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.
East Devon council area
49.3
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.
7,434 records and 150,752 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 East Devon 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 offences48.5%
3,608 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Criminal damage and arson10.1%
750 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Anti-social behaviour10.0%
740 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Other theft7.3%
541 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order6.3%
469 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting4.3%
320 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Vehicle crime3.1%
229 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary2.8%
210 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the East Devon council area
Held back: the East Devon 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 East Devon council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the East Devon council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000040), which can differ from the place people call East Devon.
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 East Devon. 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.