Council area

West Suffolk crime rate and statistics (council area)

Updated October 2026.

Police published 11,227 street-crime records for the West Suffolk council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.4% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 62.4 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 64.8 for Suffolk Constabulary. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

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

11,227

Latest month (August 2026)

908

Year-on-year

-2.4%

Month-by-month totals

960

Sep

996

Oct

861

Nov

872

Dec

975

Jan

778

Feb

979

Mar

913

Apr

966

May

981

Jun

1.0k

Jul

908

Aug

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Month	Street-crime records
September 2025	960
October 2025	996
November 2025	861
December 2025	872
January 2026	975
February 2026	778
March 2026	979
April 2026	913
May 2026	966
June 2026	981
July 2026	1,038
August 2026	908

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.

West Suffolk council area

62.4

Suffolk Constabulary

64.8

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.

11,227 records and 179,849 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 West Suffolk 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 West Suffolk council area

Held back: the West Suffolk 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 West Suffolk council area on the crime map.

Year by year

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

Year	Street-crime records
2021	13,392
2022	13,850
2023	12,267
2024	11,858
2025	11,379
2026 (part year)	7,538

Police forces

The West Suffolk council area's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Suffolk Constabulary (98.6%), Norfolk Constabulary (0.6%), Cambridgeshire Constabulary (0.5%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.1%), Essex Police (0.0%), Devon and Cornwall Police (0.0%), Derbyshire Constabulary (0.0%), Durham Constabulary (0.0%), Leicestershire Police (0.0%) and Northamptonshire Police (0.0%).

Limits to keep in mind

A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000245), which can differ from the place people call West Suffolk.
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 West Suffolk. 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. West Suffolk 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/west-suffolk/