Council area

Mid Devon crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 4,939 street-crime records for the Mid Devon council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.0% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 59.6 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 Mid Devon council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Mid Devon: 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

4,939

Latest month (August 2026)

437

Year-on-year

-7.0%

Month-by-month totals

426

Sep

375

Oct

349

Nov

379

Dec

345

Jan

397

Feb

412

Mar

449

Apr

420

May

455

Jun

495

Jul

437

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	426
October 2025	375
November 2025	349
December 2025	379
January 2026	345
February 2026	397
March 2026	412
April 2026	449
May 2026	420
June 2026	455
July 2026	495
August 2026	437

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.

Mid Devon council area

59.6

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.

4,939 records and 82,934 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.

Which parts of Mid Devon have the lowest and highest published crime rates?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. These are published street-crime records per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, as each area's own page and the crime rate rankings gave them on 31 October 2026. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit and few live, such as a town centre. Areas with fewer than 5,000 residents, and areas whose own page withholds a rate, are not ranked. How rankings are built.

Postcode sectors

Of the 7 postcode sectors mostly in Mid Devon with a ranked rate, EX5 4 has the lowest, 31.2 per 1,000 residents, and EX16 5 the highest, 99.8, September 2025 to August 2026.

Rank of 7	Sector	Per 1,000	Records
1	EX16 5 5,739 residents	99.8	573
2	EX16 6 9,839 residents	97.7	961
3	EX15 1 10,786 residents	75.7	817
4	EX16 4 5,939 residents	72.1	428
5	EX15 2 6,295 residents	41.6	262
6	EX15 3 6,709 residents	37.4	251
7	EX5 4 5,286 residents	31.2	165

Postcode districts

Of the 3 postcode districts mostly in Mid Devon with a ranked rate, EX17 has the lowest, 54.4 per 1,000 residents, and EX16 the highest, 70.7, September 2025 to August 2026.

Rank of 3	District	Per 1,000	Records
1	EX16 33,798 residents	70.7	2,389
2	EX15 23,790 residents	55.9	1,330
3	EX17 20,577 residents	54.4	1,119

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Share of the Mid 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.

Where records cluster in the Mid Devon council area

Held back: the Mid 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 Mid Devon council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the Mid Devon council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	4,214
2022	4,300
2023	3,479
2024	5,207
2025	5,139
2026 (part year)	3,410

Police forces

The Mid Devon council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Devon and Cornwall Police (99.5%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.4%) and Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000042), which can differ from the place people call Mid 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 Mid 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.
Full detail is on the methodology page.

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Postcode districts

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.

Postcode sectors

Neighbouring council areas

Council areas that share a postcode district with this one.

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CrimeMapsUK. Mid Devon council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 31 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/mid-devon/