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Wrexham crime rate and statistics (council area)
Updated October 2026.
Police published 13,894 street-crime records for the Wrexham council area from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 2.6% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 102.9 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 93.7 for North Wales Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
These figures cover the whole area Wrexham council runs. Its boundary can differ from the place people call Wrexham: 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
13,894
Latest month (August 2026)
1,409
Year-on-year
+2.6%
Month-by-month totals
1,4090
1.2k
Sep
1.1k
Oct
1.1k
Nov
1.0k
Dec
1.1k
Jan
1.0k
Feb
1.2k
Mar
1.2k
Apr
1.4k
May
1.1k
Jun
1.1k
Jul
1.4k
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
1,194
October 2025
1,102
November 2025
1,075
December 2025
1,025
January 2026
1,087
February 2026
1,036
March 2026
1,191
April 2026
1,199
May 2026
1,379
June 2026
1,100
July 2026
1,097
August 2026
1,409
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.
Wrexham council area
102.9
North Wales Police
93.7
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.
13,894 records and 134,976 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 Wrexham 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 offences37.6%
5,231 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour19.8%
2,751 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Criminal damage and arson9.9%
1,370 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Shoplifting9.5%
1,316 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Public order6.4%
886 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Other theft5.6%
779 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Drugs2.6%
355 records · England and Wales 3.4%
Burglary2.5%
353 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Where records cluster in the Wrexham council area
Held back: the Wrexham 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 Wrexham council area on the crime map.
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for the Wrexham council area (December 2013 to August 2026).
A council area follows the council's boundary (ONS local authority district W06000006), which can differ from the place people call Wrexham.
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 Wrexham. 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.