MK18 crime rate and statistics

The MK18 postcode district, in the MK (Milton Keynes) postcode area.

Updated October 2026.

Police published 1,640 street-crime records for MK18 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 5.9% fewer than in the 12 months before. The rate is 47.3 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 78.4 for Thames Valley 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

1,640

Latest month (August 2026)

166

Year-on-year

-5.9%

Month-by-month totals

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Month Street-crime records
September 2025 139
October 2025 105
November 2025 130
December 2025 118
January 2026 128
February 2026 113
March 2026 137
April 2026 123
May 2026 140
June 2026 165
July 2026 176
August 2026 166

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.

MK18

47.3

Thames Valley Police

78.4

1,640 records and 34,687 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 MK18 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 MK18

Published street-crime records in MK18, September 2025 to August 2026, grouped into hexagons © OpenStreetMap contributors, openstreetmap.org/copyright

Records by part of MK18: the north-west 559, the west 487, the south-east 391, the south-west 177, the south 31, the north 14, the north-east 13.

North is at the top. Each hexagon is about 1.2 km across, the size the crime map uses zoomed out, and holds at least one of MK18's postcodes; darker ones hold more records. Hexagons at the edge also hold records from neighbouring districts, and MK18'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 MK18 records cluster in, not where incidents happened. Explore MK18 on the crime map.

Year by year

Calendar-year totals for MK18 (December 2013 to August 2026).

Year Street-crime records
2021 1,753
2022 1,722
2023 1,915
2024 1,778
2025 1,630
2026 (part year) 1,148

Is MK18 safe?

We don't label places safe or unsafe, because published police records can't show that. This is what they show for MK18 from September 2025 to August 2026.

The records can't tell you about crime nobody reported, which street in MK18 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

MK18's records from September 2025 to August 2026 were published by Thames Valley Police (99.4%), Northamptonshire Police (0.4%), Hertfordshire Constabulary (0.1%), Bedfordshire Police (0.1%) and Metropolitan Police (0.1%).

Postcode sectors in MK18

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

Sector Street-crime records
MK18 1 650
MK18 2 200
MK18 3 390
MK18 4 133
MK18 5 57
MK18 7 210

Council area

MK18 is mostly in the Buckinghamshire council area. A council area page counts every record in the council's whole area, not just this district.

Highest and lowest published crime rates by postcode district

Deprivation where residents live

Covers 100.0% of the 34,687 Census 2021 residents of MK18.

England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025

Of these residents in England, 0.0% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 22.2% in the least deprived 20%.

Share of residents in each decile, from 1 (most deprived) to 10 (least deprived) of England's small areas.

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 MK18 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) £375,000 (259)
2025 £393,750 (582)
2024 £399,972 (546)
2023 £389,995 (429)
2022 £399,975 (640)
Show prices by property type
Year DetachedSemiTerracedFlat
2026 £543,000 (97) £356,000 (70) £281,500 (80) £221,250 (12)
2025 £526,500 (264) £356,500 (154) £296,500 (130) £186,500 (34)
2024 £530,000 (247) £365,000 (153) £290,000 (110) £206,500 (36)
2023 £530,000 (185) £360,000 (121) £284,500 (90) £195,000 (33)
2022 £542,500 (266) £364,998 (180) £309,000 (159) £233,000 (35)

Schools and colleges

22 open establishments with a postcode in MK18, from the Department for Education's Get Information About Schools register. Edition: extract of 29 Oct 2026.

Show the 22 schools
SchoolPhaseType
Bourton Meadow Academy Primary Academy converter
Buckingham Primary School Primary Community school
East Claydon Church of England School Primary Voluntary aided school
Finmere Church of England Primary School Primary Academy converter
George Grenville Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Lace Hill Academy Primary Academy sponsor led
Maids Moreton Church of England School Primary Voluntary aided school
North Marston Church of England School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Padbury Church of England School Primary Academy converter
Roundwood Primary School Primary Community school
Steeple Claydon School and Pre-School Primary Community school
St James and St John CofE Primary School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Thornborough Infant School Primary Community school
Twyford C of E School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Winslow Church of England School Primary Voluntary controlled school
Buckingham School Secondary Community school
Royal Latin School Secondary Academy converter
Sir Thomas Fremantle School Secondary Free schools
Akeley Wood Senior School – Other independent school
Furze Down School – Community special school
Stowe School – Other independent school
University of Buckingham – Higher education institutions

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
High30
Medium12
Low18
Very low1

Broadband

Share of the 1,232 postcodes in MK18 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
Gigabit67.1%81.7%
Superfast (30 Mbit/s+)82.3%91.5%

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CrimeMapsUK. MK18 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/mk18/

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