Council area

Oadby and Wigston crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 3,755 street-crime records for the Oadby and Wigston council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.8% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 64.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 92.6 for Leicestershire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

These figures cover the whole area Oadby and Wigston council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Oadby and Wigston: 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

3,755

Latest month (August 2026)

391

Year-on-year

-5.8%

Month-by-month totals

257

Sep

289

Oct

293

Nov

295

Dec

294

Jan

309

Feb

307

Mar

303

Apr

344

May

355

Jun

318

Jul

391

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	257
October 2025	289
November 2025	293
December 2025	295
January 2026	294
February 2026	309
March 2026	307
April 2026	303
May 2026	344
June 2026	355
July 2026	318
August 2026	391

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.

Oadby and Wigston council area

64.9

Leicestershire Police

92.6

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.

3,755 records and 57,855 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 Oadby and Wigston 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 Oadby and Wigston council area

Records by part of the Oadby and Wigston council area: the south-west 1,346, the west 692, the north-east 603, the east 580, the south 356, the north 118, the south-east 42, the north-west 21, the centre 9.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of the Oadby and Wigston council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Oadby and Wigston 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 Oadby and Wigston council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Oadby and Wigston council area on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for the Oadby and Wigston council area (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year	Street-crime records
2021	3,852
2022	4,188
2023	4,200
2024	4,046
2025	3,785
2026 (part year)	2,621

Police forces

The Oadby and Wigston council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Leicestershire Police (99.7%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.1%), South Wales Police (0.1%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Northamptonshire Police (0.0%), Nottinghamshire Police (0.0%) and Warwickshire Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000135), which can differ from the place people call Oadby and Wigston.
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 Oadby and Wigston. 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.

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Council areas that share a postcode district with this one.

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CrimeMapsUK. Oadby and Wigston council area: published street-crime records, September 2025 to August 2026. Source: data.police.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Retrieved 30 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/oadby-and-wigston/