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South Staffordshire crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 6,760 street-crime records for the South Staffordshire council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 9.0% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 61.2 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 95.8 for Staffordshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area South Staffordshire council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call South Staffordshire: 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
6,760
Latest month (August 2026)
654
Year-on-year
+9.0%
Month-by-month totals
6770
541
Sep
565
Oct
483
Nov
531
Dec
507
Jan
467
Feb
552
Mar
547
Apr
600
May
636
Jun
677
Jul
654
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
541
October 2025
565
November 2025
483
December 2025
531
January 2026
507
February 2026
467
March 2026
552
April 2026
547
May 2026
600
June 2026
636
July 2026
677
August 2026
654
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 Staffordshire council area
61.2
Staffordshire Police
95.8
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.
6,760 records and 110,507 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 Staffordshire 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 offences44.1%
2,982 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour12.9%
875 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Public order7.1%
480 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Criminal damage and arson7.1%
478 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft6.3%
427 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime5.8%
392 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Shoplifting4.4%
298 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Burglary4.1%
280 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the South Staffordshire council area
Records by part of the South Staffordshire council area: the north-east 3,291, the south 1,966, the north 1,830, the east 1,154, the south-west 821, the north-west 703, the west 624.
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 South Staffordshire council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the South Staffordshire 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 South Staffordshire council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the South Staffordshire council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the South Staffordshire council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000196), which can differ from the place people call South Staffordshire.
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 Staffordshire. 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.