Council area

Powys crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 10,351 street-crime records for the Powys council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.0% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 77.7 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 84.9 for Dyfed-Powys Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

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

10,351

Latest month (August 2026)

846

Year-on-year

+9.0%

Month-by-month totals

719

Sep

788

Oct

750

Nov

606

Dec

746

Jan

641

Feb

822

Mar

1.2k

Apr

1.3k

May

890

Jun

979

Jul

846

Aug

Striped bars: only some of the forces here published that month, so its count is incomplete. The table names the force.

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	719
October 2025	788
November 2025	750
December 2025	606
January 2026	746
February 2026	641 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026	822 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026	1,243 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026	1,321 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026	890 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026	979 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026	846 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)

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.

Powys council area

77.7

Dyfed-Powys Police

84.9

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.

10,351 records and 133,243 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 Powys 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 Powys council area

Held back: the Powys 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 Powys council area on the crime map.

Year by year

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

Year	Street-crime records
2021	9,671
2022	11,065
2023	8,743
2024	6,770
2025	9,400
2026 (part year)	7,488

Police forces

The Powys council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Dyfed-Powys Police (90.1%), West Mercia Police (9.3%), South Wales Police (0.4%), North Wales Police (0.1%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.0%), Gwent Police (0.0%), Metropolitan Police (0.0%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Gloucestershire Constabulary (0.0%), Lancashire Constabulary (0.0%) and Norfolk Constabulary (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district W06000023), which can differ from the place people call Powys.
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 Powys. 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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Council areas that share a postcode district with this one.

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CrimeMapsUK. Powys 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/powys/