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Malvern Hills crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 4,644 street-crime records for the Malvern Hills council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 58.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 78.1 for West Mercia Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Malvern Hills council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Malvern Hills: 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
4,644
Latest month (August 2026)
445
Year-on-year
+3.5%
Month-by-month totals
4780
355
Sep
390
Oct
387
Nov
383
Dec
383
Jan
338
Feb
388
Mar
368
Apr
334
May
395
Jun
478
Jul
445
Aug
Striped bars: only some of the forces here published that month, so its count is incomplete. The table names the force.
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
355
October 2025
390
November 2025
387
December 2025
383
January 2026
383
February 2026
338 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
388 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
368 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
334 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
395 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
478 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
445 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
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.
Malvern Hills council area
58.3
West Mercia Police
78.1
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.
4,644 records and 79,615 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 Malvern Hills 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 offences39.8%
1,850 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour12.9%
597 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting9.7%
451 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft7.9%
366 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.5%
346 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Burglary7.3%
341 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Public order5.8%
268 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime3.2%
149 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the Malvern Hills council area
Records by part of the Malvern Hills council area: the south-east 3,200, the east 1,387, the north-east 593, the north-west 230, the north 219, the south 61, the west 6, the south-west 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 Malvern Hills council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Malvern Hills 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 Malvern Hills council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Striped months add only the records that were published. Explore the Malvern Hills council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Malvern Hills council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000235), which can differ from the place people call Malvern Hills.
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 Malvern Hills. 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.