Public access to policing data for England and Wales.
Crime in NN5 6
The NN5 6 postcode sector, in the NN (Northampton) postcode area, with most records published by Northamptonshire Police.
Updated October 2026.
Police published 1,216 street-crime records for NN5 6 from September 2025 to August 2026. That is 4.8% more than in the 12 months before. The rate is 66.2 per 1,000 residents counted in the Census 2021, against 95.3 for Northamptonshire Police. A residents-only rate reads high where many people visit. Police locations are approximate.
September 2025 to August 2026. Street-crime records include anti-social behaviour.
Street-crime records
1,216
Share of NN5
23.9%
Year-on-year
+4.8%
NN5 6 holds 23.9% of the 5,082 records assigned to NN5 in the same window.
Month-by-month totals
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Month
Street-crime records
September 2025
93
October 2025
84
November 2025
100
December 2025
93
January 2026
88
February 2026
88
March 2026
78
April 2026
115
May 2026
120
June 2026
132
July 2026
126
August 2026
99
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.
NN5 6
66.2
Northamptonshire Police
95.3
1,216 records and 18,371 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.
Category mix compared
Each column is a share of that area's own records in the same window, so areas of different sizes compare fairly. Force: Northamptonshire Police.
Category
NN5 6
NN5
Force
Violence and sexual offences
31.2%
32.3%
34.6%
Anti-social behaviour
23.0%
25.1%
23.3%
Shoplifting
15.8%
8.2%
7.4%
Burglary
7.1%
4.8%
3.7%
Criminal damage and arson
5.2%
5.7%
6.0%
Vehicle crime
4.2%
4.6%
5.1%
Other theft
4.0%
5.6%
5.7%
Public order
3.6%
5.5%
5.6%
Year by year
Calendar-year totals for NN5 6 (December 2013 to August 2026).
Year
Street-crime records
2021
1,099
2022
1,098
2023
959
2024
1,121
2025
1,148
2026 (part year)
846
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 sector by its nearest postcode. A sector is small, so counts near its edges are indicative.
These are counts of published police records, not all crime, and not a safety score.
Covers 100.0% of the 18,371 Census 2021 residents of NN5 6.
England: English Indices of Deprivation 2025
Of these residents in England, 4.5% live in the most deprived 20% of England's neighbourhoods and 21.4% in the least deprived 20%.
0%1
5%2
0%3
0%4
9%5
9%6
4%7
51%8
7%9
15%10
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.
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