GU16 crime rate and statistics

The GU16 postcode district, in the GU (Guildford) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,272 street-crime records for GU16 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 4.0% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 52.7 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 73.6 for Surrey Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.

Last 12 published months

September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.

Street-crime records

1,272

Latest month (August 2026)

139

Year-on-year

-4.0%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 100
October 2025 108
November 2025 97
December 2025 110
January 2026 83
February 2026 102
March 2026 115
April 2026 80
May 2026 109
June 2026 115
July 2026 114
August 2026 139

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.

GU16

52.7

Surrey Police

73.6

1,272 records and 24,154 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 GU16 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 GU16

Published street-crime records in GU16, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons

Records by part of GU16: the north-west 555, the south 258, the north 227, the east 155, the north-east 72, the centre 42, the south-east 27, the west 8.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 300 m across, the size the crime map uses zoomed in, and holds at least one of GU16's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and GU16'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 GU16 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore GU16 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for GU16 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,322
2022 1,178
2023 1,282
2024 1,358
2025 1,289
2026 (part year) 857

Is GU16 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for GU16 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in GU16 a record came from, or how a place feels at different times of day. The rate per 1,000 residents is above. See the limits to keep in mind.

Limits to keep in mind

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Police forces

GU16's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Surrey Police (99.8%), City of London Police (0.1%), Metropolitan Police (0.1%) and South Wales Police (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in GU16

Each sector is the outward code plus the first digit of the inward code. Counts cover the same trailing window.

Sector Street-crime records
GU16 5 388
GU16 6 506
GU16 7 140
GU16 8 172
GU16 9 66

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 24,154 Census 2021 residents of GU16.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 78.1% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas. Shares are rounded, so they may not total 100%.

Deciles rank neighbourhoods within one nation, so English and Welsh deciles don't compare. They describe areas, not the people living in them, and crime is one of the things the index measures, so this mix partly overlaps the crime figures above. How this is built.

About GU16 beyond crime

Figures below come from official open datasets, joined on postcode. Sources are listed on the methodology page.

House prices

Median sold price by year, with the number of sales in brackets, from HM Land Registry Price Paid Data (standard residential sales in England and Wales). A median is shown only where there were at least five sales. Edition: yearly files 2022 to 2026.

YearAll sales
2026 (part year) £475,000 (214)
2025 £470,000 (405)
2024 £450,000 (352)
2023 £460,000 (311)
2022 £465,000 (487)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £605,000 (73) £487,500 (70) £377,500 (48) £192,000 (23)
2025 £600,000 (134) £470,000 (131) £390,000 (77) £238,000 (63)
2024 £602,500 (108) £465,000 (108) £410,000 (71) £245,000 (65)
2023 £605,000 (112) £450,000 (111) £380,000 (62) £257,500 (26)
2022 £610,000 (165) £460,000 (163) £384,500 (106) £250,000 (53)

Schools and colleges

10 open establishments with a postcode in GU16, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 10 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Cross Farm Infant Academy Primary Academy converter
Frimley CofE School Primary Academy converter
Lakeside Nursery & Primary Academy Primary Academy converter
Mytchett Primary & Nursery Academy Primary Academy converter
Ravenscote Junior School Primary Academy converter
Sandringham Infant & Nursery Academy Primary Academy converter
St Augustine's Catholic Primary School Primary Academy converter
The Grove Primary Academy Primary Academy converter
Tomlinscote School Secondary Academy converter
Portesbery School – Community special school

Flood risk from rivers and the sea

Postcodes in England with properties in each band (Environment Agency), counted by the highest long-term risk band of any property in the postcode. Postcodes not listed have no property in a rivers-and-sea risk area, and postcodes outside England are not covered. Risk applies to the area around an address, not the address itself. Surface-water risk is not published by postcode. Edition: NaFRA2, revised 18 Jun 2026.

Highest bandPostcodes
High25
Medium2
Low12
Very low0

Broadband

Share of the 574 postcodes in GU16 where every premises, or at least one, can get each fixed service, from Ofcom Connected Nations. Ofcom does not publish full-fibre availability by postcode. Edition: Connected Nations, July 2025 data.

ServiceEvery premisesSome premises
Gigabit71.3%88.2%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)96.0%98.3%

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CrimeMapsUK. GU16 postcode district: 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/districts/gu16/

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