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East Lindsey crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 14,298 street-crime records for the East Lindsey council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 12.0% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 100.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 93.9 for Lincolnshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area East Lindsey council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call East Lindsey: 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
14,298
Latest month (August 2026)
1,474
Year-on-year
+12.0%
Month-by-month totals
1,6800
1.1k
Sep
1.1k
Oct
968
Nov
1.0k
Dec
916
Jan
1.0k
Feb
1.2k
Mar
1.3k
Apr
1.2k
May
1.3k
Jun
1.7k
Jul
1.5k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
1,097
October 2025
1,103
November 2025
968
December 2025
1,000
January 2026
916
February 2026
1,028
March 2026
1,238
April 2026
1,290
May 2026
1,234
June 2026
1,270
July 2026
1,680
August 2026
1,474
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 Lindsey council area
100.5
Lincolnshire Police
93.9
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.
14,298 records and 142,318 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 Lindsey 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 offences38.7%
5,538 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour22.0%
3,142 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.8%
1,111 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting7.7%
1,094 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft6.2%
892 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order5.4%
776 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Burglary3.6%
518 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Vehicle crime2.7%
390 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the East Lindsey council area
Held back: the East Lindsey 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 Lindsey council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the East Lindsey council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000137), which can differ from the place people call East Lindsey.
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 Lindsey. 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.