Crime in Blaby: statistics, rates and trends

Violence and sexual offences (2,640), anti-social behaviour (1,198) and shoplifting (809) made up 61% of all recorded crime. Its crime rate ranks 221st of the 302 districts covered by this site (1 = highest), in the lower half.

Recorded crime in Blaby peaked in the year to August 2023 (7,970 crimes) and was lowest in the year to August 2020 (6,353). Between the years to August 2018 and 2026 it rose 10%, while across England and Wales it fell 4%.

Month by month

No category with at least 20 crimes was notably above the England and Wales rate, and theft from the person (79% below) and drugs (68% below) were well below it. On the year before, robbery rose from 29 to 47 and other crime rose from 181 to 231, while shoplifting fell from 980 to 809.

What each category covers: crime categories.

6,404 crimes, excluding fraud, were recorded by the police in Blaby in the year ending March 2026, according to the Home Office's police recorded crime statistics. That is 59.2 per 1,000 residents, lower than the England and Wales rate of 83.2. The total was down 6% on the year ending March 2025 (6,827), against a fall of 2% across England and Wales. Among the 272 districts of England and Wales with a figure for that year, Blaby had the 76th lowest rate (the street-level ranking above is among the 302 districts with street-level pages on this site, over the 12 months to August 2026).

Of the crimes recorded in the Leicestershire Police area in the year ending March 2026, 1.7% were not assigned to a district. Those crimes are counted in the force and England and Wales totals but in no district, so the figure for Blaby is a slight undercount.

Offences recorded in Blaby, the year ending March 2026

The largest category was stalking and harassment, with 868 offences (14% of the total). No category with at least 20 offences had a rate a quarter or more above the England and Wales rate. Rates were lowest relative to the national rate for possession of drugs (0.21 times), theft from the person (0.23 times) and robbery of personal property (0.26 times).

The largest rises on the year were in other sexual offences (+26%) and violence without injury (+24%). The largest falls were in residential burglary (−32%) and vehicle offences (−29%). Robbery of business property and shoplifting are not compared with the year ending March 2025: from April 2025 the Home Office Counting Rules were clarified so that a theft from a shop in which violence is used or threatened against staff or anyone else is recorded as robbery of business property rather than shoplifting (ONS).

Recorded crime in Blaby since the year ending March 2023

The chart shows police recorded crime per 1,000 residents in each year ending March from 2023 to 2026. Blaby's rate was below the England and Wales rate in every one of those 4 years. The series starts in the year ending March 2023 because the share of crimes in the Leicestershire Police area not assigned to a district moved from 2.4% in the year ending March 2022 to 1.2% in the year ending March 2023, which changes district totals without any change in crime.

Changes in how forces record crime move these figures as well as changes in crime (methodology).

Districts in the Leicestershire Police area, the year ending March 2026

Of the 9 districts in the Leicestershire Police area with a figure for the year ending March 2026, Blaby had the 5th highest rate.

Source: Home Office police recorded crime and outcomes open data tables (released 23 July 2026), gov.uk, Open Government Licence v3.0. Financial years, excluding fraud; how they differ from the street-level figures: methodology.

5 of the 8 nearest districts have a higher crime rate than Blaby; the highest is Leicester district (122.3 per 1,000) and the lowest Harborough (51.7).

Of the 29 areas within Blaby, Enderby had the highest crime rate (287.5 per 1,000) and Huncote the lowest (19.8), 15 times apart.

The 10 locations below account for 27% of the crime recorded in Blaby over the 12 months to August 2026; the most were recorded at “Hill View” and “Parking Area” (362 each).

Of the 6,375 crimes in Blaby with a recorded outcome, 41% ended with the investigation complete and no suspect identified, against 35% across England and Wales; 3.8% were awaiting a court outcome (England and Wales: 5.2%). The 1,198 anti-social behaviour reports have no outcome and are left out.

Blaby has an estimated population of 108,165 (ONS, mid-2024). Compared with England and Wales it has less social housing (8.2%, against 17.1%), fewer households without a car (11%, against 23%) and less private renting (13%, against 20%). On the England IoD 2025, the small areas (LSOAs) that make up Blaby average decile 7.8 (1 = most deprived), less deprived than average.

Police-recorded crime from data.police.uk (September 2017 to August 2026), ONS population estimates and Census 2021. Definitions and limitations: methodology.