Council area

South Holland crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 7,890 street-crime records for the South Holland council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 8.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 83.0 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 93.9 for Lincolnshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

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

7,890

Latest month (August 2026)

723

Year-on-year

+8.5%

Month-by-month totals

605

Sep

711

Oct

594

Nov

586

Dec

580

Jan

579

Feb

717

Mar

598

Apr

714

May

702

Jun

781

Jul

723

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	605
October 2025	711
November 2025	594
December 2025	586
January 2026	580
February 2026	579
March 2026	717
April 2026	598
May 2026	714
June 2026	702
July 2026	781
August 2026	723

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 Holland council area

83.0

Lincolnshire Police

93.9

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.

7,890 records and 95,058 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.

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Share of the South Holland 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 South Holland council area

Held back: the South Holland 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 Holland council area on the crime map.

Year by year

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

Year	Street-crime records
2021	7,368
2022	7,078
2023	6,315
2024	6,721
2025	7,478
2026 (part year)	5,394

Police forces

The South Holland council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Lincolnshire Police (99.0%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.5%), Norfolk Constabulary (0.1%), Leicestershire Police (0.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Nottinghamshire Police (0.1%), Suffolk Constabulary (0.0%), Bedfordshire Police (0.0%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Humberside Police (0.0%), Northamptonshire Police (0.0%), Northumbria Police (0.0%) and South Yorkshire Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000140), which can differ from the place people call South Holland.
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 Holland. 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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CrimeMapsUK. South Holland 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/south-holland/