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Worcester crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 12,000 street-crime records for the Worcester council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 1.5% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 115.5 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 78.1 for West Mercia Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Worcester council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Worcester: 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
12,000
Latest month (August 2026)
1,188
Year-on-year
+1.5%
Month-by-month totals
1,2520
963
Sep
977
Oct
889
Nov
1.0k
Dec
905
Jan
951
Feb
1.1k
Mar
862
Apr
927
May
1.0k
Jun
1.3k
Jul
1.2k
Aug
Striped bars: only some of the forces here published that month, so its count is incomplete. The table names the force.
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
963
October 2025
977
November 2025
889
December 2025
1,008
January 2026
905
February 2026
951 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
March 2026
1,064 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
April 2026
862 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
May 2026
927 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
June 2026
1,014 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
July 2026
1,252 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
August 2026
1,188 (Partly published: Gloucestershire Constabulary did not publish)
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.
Worcester council area
115.5
West Mercia Police
78.1
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.
12,000 records and 103,930 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 Worcester 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 offences37.3%
4,472 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour14.4%
1,733 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting11.5%
1,383 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson7.9%
951 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Public order6.4%
771 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft5.5%
665 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Vehicle crime4.3%
512 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary4.1%
497 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the Worcester council area
Records by part of the Worcester council area: the west 3,333, the south-west 2,208, the north-east 2,067, the east 1,068, the south 1,022, the north 924, the north-west 787, the south-east 458, the centre 159.
North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 290 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of the Worcester council area's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring council areas, and the Worcester 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 Worcester council area records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Striped months add only the records that were published. Explore the Worcester council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Worcester council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district E07000237), which can differ from the place people call Worcester.
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 Worcester. 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.