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Lewes crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 7,530 street-crime records for the Lewes council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.3% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 75.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 99.4 for Sussex Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Lewes council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Lewes: 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
7,530
Latest month (August 2026)
717
Year-on-year
+9.3%
Month-by-month totals
7940
569
Sep
559
Oct
553
Nov
507
Dec
547
Jan
527
Feb
604
Mar
651
Apr
752
May
750
Jun
794
Jul
717
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
569
October 2025
559
November 2025
553
December 2025
507
January 2026
547
February 2026
527
March 2026
604
April 2026
651
May 2026
752
June 2026
750
July 2026
794
August 2026
717
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.
Lewes council area
75.5
Sussex Police
99.4
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.
7,530 records and 99,761 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 Lewes 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.
Records by part of the Lewes council area: the south 3,692, the south-east 1,209, the centre 1,037, the north-west 1,000, the west 675, the south-west 217, the north 202, the east 161, the north-east 151.
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 Lewes council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Lewes 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 Lewes council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Lewes council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Lewes council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000063), which can differ from the place people call Lewes.
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 Lewes. 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.