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Newark and Sherwood crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 10,697 street-crime records for the Newark and Sherwood council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 86.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 111.0 for Nottinghamshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Newark and Sherwood council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Newark and Sherwood: 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
10,697
Latest month (August 2026)
926
Year-on-year
+2.8%
Month-by-month totals
1,0300
790
Sep
881
Oct
920
Nov
773
Dec
895
Jan
782
Feb
936
Mar
935
Apr
821
May
1.0k
Jun
1.0k
Jul
926
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
790
October 2025
881
November 2025
920
December 2025
773
January 2026
895
February 2026
782
March 2026
936
April 2026
935
May 2026
821
June 2026
1,008
July 2026
1,030
August 2026
926
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.
Newark and Sherwood council area
86.9
Nottinghamshire Police
111.0
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.
10,697 records and 123,051 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 Newark and Sherwood 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 offences34.6%
3,698 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour16.4%
1,754 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting10.5%
1,124 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson9.7%
1,042 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft6.2%
666 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Other crime5.3%
571 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Public order4.9%
529 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime3.7%
399 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the Newark and Sherwood council area
Records by part of the Newark and Sherwood council area: the south-east 5,321, the west 1,871, the north-west 1,617, the east 786, the south-west 678, the north-east 246, the south 199, the north 103.
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 Newark and Sherwood council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Newark and Sherwood 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 Newark and Sherwood council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Newark and Sherwood council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Newark and Sherwood council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000175), which can differ from the place people call Newark and Sherwood.
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 Newark and Sherwood. 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.