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South Hams crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 4,330 street-crime records for the South Hams council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 3.4% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 48.8 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 South Hams council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call South Hams: 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
4,330
Latest month (August 2026)
416
Year-on-year
+3.4%
Month-by-month totals
4680
372
Sep
351
Oct
311
Nov
293
Dec
356
Jan
345
Feb
323
Mar
337
Apr
387
May
371
Jun
468
Jul
416
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
372
October 2025
351
November 2025
311
December 2025
293
January 2026
356
February 2026
345
March 2026
323
April 2026
337
May 2026
387
June 2026
371
July 2026
468
August 2026
416
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.
South Hams council area
48.8
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.
4,330 records and 88,693 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 South Hams 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 offences45.2%
1,959 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Other theft11.7%
506 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Anti-social behaviour10.9%
471 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson9.3%
401 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order6.9%
298 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Shoplifting6.1%
262 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary2.9%
125 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Other crime2.0%
86 records · England and Wales 2.2%
Where records cluster in the South Hams council area
Held back: the South Hams 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 South Hams council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the South Hams council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000044), which can differ from the place people call South Hams.
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 South Hams. 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.