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Newcastle-under-Lyme crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 11,271 street-crime records for the Newcastle-under-Lyme council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 13.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 91.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 95.8 for Staffordshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Newcastle-under-Lyme council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Newcastle-under-Lyme: 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
11,271
Latest month (August 2026)
960
Year-on-year
+13.4%
Month-by-month totals
1,1480
897
Sep
919
Oct
794
Nov
849
Dec
882
Jan
834
Feb
1.0k
Mar
926
Apr
986
May
1.0k
Jun
1.1k
Jul
960
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
897
October 2025
919
November 2025
794
December 2025
849
January 2026
882
February 2026
834
March 2026
1,029
April 2026
926
May 2026
986
June 2026
1,047
July 2026
1,148
August 2026
960
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.
Newcastle-under-Lyme council area
91.3
Staffordshire Police
95.8
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.
11,271 records and 123,460 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 offences41.1%
4,628 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour17.8%
2,007 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order8.3%
934 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting7.0%
786 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.5%
738 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft5.6%
635 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime3.3%
369 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary3.1%
352 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the Newcastle-under-Lyme council area
Records by part of the Newcastle-under-Lyme council area: the east 6,774, the north-east 5,891, the north 310, the west 160, the south-west 102, the south 77, the north-west 58, the south-east 36, the centre 34.
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 Newcastle-under-Lyme council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Newcastle-under-Lyme 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 Newcastle-under-Lyme council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Newcastle-under-Lyme council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Newcastle-under-Lyme council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000195), which can differ from the place people call Newcastle-under-Lyme.
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 Newcastle-under-Lyme. 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.