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BN4 crime statistics
The BN4 postcode district, in the BN (Brighton) postcode area.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 988 street-crime records for BN4 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 7.3% more than in the 12 months before. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
988
Latest month (August 2026)
82
Year-on-year
+7.3%
Month-by-month totals
1020
84
Sep
85
Oct
71
Nov
78
Dec
89
Jan
59
Feb
72
Mar
80
Apr
101
May
85
Jun
102
Jul
82
Aug
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Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
84
October 2025
85
November 2025
71
December 2025
78
January 2026
89
February 2026
59
March 2026
72
April 2026
80
May 2026
101
June 2026
85
July 2026
102
August 2026
82
Street-crime records per 1,000 residents
No Census 2021 residents are recorded for these postcodes, so no rate is shown.
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 BN4 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 offences28.4%
281 records · England and Wales 35.5%
Anti-social behaviour25.0%
247 records · England and Wales 15.7%
Shoplifting11.1%
110 records · England and Wales 8.7%
Criminal damage and arson8.7%
86 records · England and Wales 7.0%
Other theft7.4%
73 records · England and Wales 6.7%
Public order6.8%
67 records · England and Wales 6.9%
Vehicle crime4.0%
40 records · England and Wales 5.1%
Burglary2.8%
28 records · England and Wales 3.7%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for BN4 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,034
2022
896
2023
1,014
2024
888
2025
965
2026 (part year)
670
Is BN4 safe?
We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for BN4 from September 2025 to August 2026.
About 82 records a month. The busiest month was July 2026, with 102.
Records here changed by +7.3% on the 12 months before, against +8.8% across the Sussex Police area, the main force here with 99.9% of BN4's records, over the same months. With 988 records a year, a change of a few percent can be chance.
Violence and sexual offences is the largest category, at 28.4% of records, against 35.5% across England and Wales over the same months.
The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in BN4 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. See the limits to keep in mind.
Limits to keep in mind
Published locations are approximate; they are snapped to anonymous map points before release, and each record is assigned to a district by its nearest postcode. Counts near district boundaries are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Outcome labels in the source data are not court results or conviction rates.
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