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Plymouth crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 29,824 street-crime records for the Plymouth council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.6% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 112.8 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 Plymouth council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Plymouth: 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
29,824
Latest month (August 2026)
2,719
Year-on-year
+3.6%
Month-by-month totals
2,8450
2.4k
Sep
2.5k
Oct
2.3k
Nov
2.2k
Dec
2.3k
Jan
2.2k
Feb
2.5k
Mar
2.6k
Apr
2.6k
May
2.6k
Jun
2.8k
Jul
2.7k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
2,401
October 2025
2,517
November 2025
2,264
December 2025
2,236
January 2026
2,320
February 2026
2,156
March 2026
2,515
April 2026
2,583
May 2026
2,646
June 2026
2,622
July 2026
2,845
August 2026
2,719
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.
Plymouth council area
112.8
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.
29,824 records and 264,467 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 Plymouth 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 offences44.7%
13,323 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour13.4%
4,004 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson8.4%
2,510 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting7.3%
2,190 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Other theft7.0%
2,080 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order6.4%
1,912 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Drugs2.9%
853 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Vehicle crime2.6%
789 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the Plymouth council area
Records by part of the Plymouth council area: the south-west 12,935, the west 6,197, the north-west 2,962, the south 2,651, the east 1,780, the north 1,326, the south-east 1,208, the centre 775, the north-east 305.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Plymouth council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Plymouth 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 Plymouth council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Plymouth council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Plymouth council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000026), which can differ from the place people call Plymouth.
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 Plymouth. 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.