Council area

North Devon crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 7,114 street-crime records for the North Devon council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.4% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 72.1 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 North Devon council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call North 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

7,114

Latest month (August 2026)

718

Year-on-year

-7.4%

Month-by-month totals

634

Sep

619

Oct

545

Nov

509

Dec

437

Jan

491

Feb

619

Mar

577

Apr

656

May

624

Jun

685

Jul

718

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	634
October 2025	619
November 2025	545
December 2025	509
January 2026	437
February 2026	491
March 2026	619
April 2026	577
May 2026	656
June 2026	624
July 2026	685
August 2026	718

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.

North Devon council area

72.1

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.

7,114 records and 98,637 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 North 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 12 postcode sectors mostly in North Devon with a ranked rate, EX33 1 has the lowest, 27.3 per 1,000 residents, and EX34 9 the highest, 164.6, September 2025 to August 2026.

Rank of 12	Sector	Per 1,000	Records
1	EX34 9 5,807 residents	164.6	956
2	EX32 8 6,534 residents	120.4	787
3	EX31 2 6,397 residents	84.1	538
4	EX32 7 6,960 residents	71.8	500
5	EX34 8 6,516 residents	69.8	455
… 2 more between these
8	EX31 3 11,046 residents	48.8	539
9	EX33 2 5,207 residents	45.5	237
10	EX36 4 5,939 residents	45.1	268
11	EX32 0 5,180 residents	32.8	170
12	EX33 1 5,085 residents	27.3	139

Postcode districts

Of the 5 postcode districts mostly in North Devon with a ranked rate, EX33 has the lowest, 36.5 per 1,000 residents, and EX34 the highest, 98.2, September 2025 to August 2026.

Rank of 5	District	Per 1,000	Records
1	EX34 16,605 residents	98.2	1,631
2	EX31 28,452 residents	85.5	2,432
3	EX32 24,250 residents	75.5	1,831
4	EX36 10,035 residents	52.3	525
5	EX33 10,292 residents	36.5	376

Top crime categories

Share of the North 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 North Devon council area

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

Year by year

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

Year	Street-crime records
2021	6,522
2022	6,298
2023	4,857
2024	7,268
2025	7,559
2026 (part year)	4,807

Police forces

The North Devon council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Devon and Cornwall Police (99.8%), Avon and Somerset Police (0.1%), Leicestershire Police (0.0%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Dorset Police (0.0%), Durham Constabulary (0.0%) and Metropolitan Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000043), which can differ from the place people call North 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 North 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. North 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/north-devon/