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Warrington crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 16,069 street-crime records for the Warrington council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.3% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 76.2 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 76.1 for Cheshire Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Warrington council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Warrington: 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
16,069
Latest month (August 2026)
1,430
Year-on-year
+2.3%
Month-by-month totals
1,5540
1.3k
Sep
1.3k
Oct
1.2k
Nov
1.2k
Dec
1.2k
Jan
1.3k
Feb
1.5k
Mar
1.3k
Apr
1.4k
May
1.6k
Jun
1.5k
Jul
1.4k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
1,284
October 2025
1,295
November 2025
1,176
December 2025
1,210
January 2026
1,163
February 2026
1,321
March 2026
1,483
April 2026
1,316
May 2026
1,376
June 2026
1,554
July 2026
1,461
August 2026
1,430
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.
Warrington council area
76.2
Cheshire Constabulary
76.1
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.
16,069 records and 210,943 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 Warrington 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 offences45.6%
7,323 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Public order11.2%
1,800 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Anti-social behaviour8.8%
1,420 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson6.3%
1,016 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft6.1%
981 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Shoplifting5.6%
898 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Drugs4.4%
702 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Vehicle crime3.5%
557 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Where records cluster in the Warrington council area
Records by part of the Warrington council area: the south-west 4,298, the west 4,127, the north-west 2,383, the south 1,727, the north-east 1,450, the east 883, the north 632, the south-east 510, the centre 434.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.1 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of the Warrington council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Warrington 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 Warrington council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore the Warrington council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Warrington council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E06000007), which can differ from the place people call Warrington.
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 Warrington. 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.