Council area

Isle of Wight crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 11,831 street-crime records for the Isle of Wight council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 0.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 84.2 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 83.4 for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

These figures cover the whole area Isle of Wight council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Isle of Wight: it can take in other towns and villages, and part of a town can sit in a neighbouring council area.

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Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

11,831

Latest month (August 2026)

1,163

Year-on-year

+0.4%

Month-by-month totals

956

Sep

914

Oct

843

Nov

919

Dec

933

Jan

876

Feb

948

Mar

999

Apr

1.1k

May

999

Jun

1.2k

Jul

1.2k

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	956
October 2025	914
November 2025	843
December 2025	919
January 2026	933
February 2026	876
March 2026	948
April 2026	999
May 2026	1,078
June 2026	999
July 2026	1,203
August 2026	1,163

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.

Isle of Wight council area

84.2

Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary

83.4

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.

11,831 records and 140,577 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 Isle of Wight 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.

Where records cluster in the Isle of Wight council area

Records by part of the Isle of Wight council area: the north-east 5,174, the east 2,429, the north 2,253, the south-east 1,185, the west 593, the south 85, the north-west 55, the south-west 52, the centre 1.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Isle of Wight council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Isle of Wight 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 Isle of Wight council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Isle of Wight council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the Isle of Wight council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	12,198
2022	12,626
2023	12,103
2024	11,691
2025	11,556
2026 (part year)	8,199

Police forces

The Isle of Wight council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary (99.9%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%), Cumbria Constabulary (0.0%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Dyfed-Powys Police (0.0%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%) and Nottinghamshire Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000046), which can differ from the place people call Isle of Wight.
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 Isle of Wight. 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.
Full detail is on the methodology page.

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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.

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CrimeMapsUK. Isle of Wight council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 October 2026. Police locations are approximate; records are assigned to the area by nearest postcode. Postcode centroids from the ONS Postcode Directory. Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. https://crimemapsuk.com/crime/council-areas/isle-of-wight/