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Middlesbrough crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 29,217 street-crime records for the Middlesbrough council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 4.0% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 203.1 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 164.7 for Cleveland Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Middlesbrough council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Middlesbrough: 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
29,217
Latest month (August 2026)
2,595
Year-on-year
+4.0%
Month-by-month totals
2,7110
2.4k
Sep
2.6k
Oct
2.2k
Nov
2.2k
Dec
2.2k
Jan
2.2k
Feb
2.6k
Mar
2.4k
Apr
2.5k
May
2.6k
Jun
2.7k
Jul
2.6k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
2,400
October 2025
2,578
November 2025
2,229
December 2025
2,152
January 2026
2,223
February 2026
2,249
March 2026
2,621
April 2026
2,392
May 2026
2,504
June 2026
2,563
July 2026
2,711
August 2026
2,595
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.
Middlesbrough council area
203.1
Cleveland Police
164.7
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.
29,217 records and 143,858 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 Middlesbrough 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 17 postcode sectors mostly in Middlesbrough with a ranked rate, TS7 8 has the lowest, 55.6 per 1,000 residents, and TS4 3 the highest, 325.3, September 2025 to August 2026.
Of the 6 postcode districts mostly in Middlesbrough with a ranked rate, TS7 has the lowest, 91.8 per 1,000 residents, and TS1 the highest, 413.3, September 2025 to August 2026.
Share of the Middlesbrough 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 offences32.4%
9,470 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour15.5%
4,519 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson10.8%
3,141 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting10.6%
3,101 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order7.8%
2,293 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime4.4%
1,297 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Other theft4.2%
1,220 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Drugs3.8%
1,106 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Where records cluster in the Middlesbrough council area
Records by part of the Middlesbrough council area: the north-west 10,221, the north 5,600, the west 5,264, the north-east 3,223, the south-west 2,453, the south 1,645, the centre 1,374, the east 1,064, the south-east 628.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Middlesbrough council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Middlesbrough 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 Middlesbrough council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Middlesbrough council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Middlesbrough council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000002), which can differ from the place people call Middlesbrough.
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 Middlesbrough. 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.