Crime in Sutton: statistics, rates and trends

Violence and sexual offences (5,438), anti-social behaviour (3,254) and shoplifting (1,515) made up 62% of all recorded crime. Its crime rate ranks 194th of the 302 districts covered by this site (1 = highest), in the lower half.

Recorded crime in Sutton peaked in the year to August 2020 (18,838 crimes) and was lowest in the year to August 2018 (14,775). Between the years to August 2018 and 2026 it rose 12%, 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 criminal damage and arson (57% below) and possession of weapons (56% below) were well below it. On the year before, possession of weapons rose from 72 to 92 and public order rose from 989 to 1,184, while criminal damage and arson fell from 985 to 624 and burglary fell from 897 to 725.

What each category covers: crime categories.

12,926 crimes, excluding fraud, were recorded by the police in Sutton in the year ending March 2026, according to the Home Office's police recorded crime statistics. That is 60.3 per 1,000 residents, lower than the England and Wales rate of 83.2. Among the 272 districts of England and Wales with a figure for that year, Sutton had the 83rd 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 Metropolitan Police area in the year ending March 2026, 5.5% 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 Sutton is an undercount.

No change on the year or longer series is given for Sutton: comparable figures start in the year ending March 2026, because the share of crimes in the Metropolitan Police area not assigned to a district moved from 4.3% in the year ending March 2025 to 5.5% in the year ending March 2026, which changes district totals without any change in crime.

Offences recorded in Sutton, the year ending March 2026

The largest category was violence without injury, with 2,215 offences (17% of the total). Relative to England and Wales, rates were highest for robbery of business property (1.3 times the national rate). Rates were lowest relative to the national rate for arson (0.32 times), bicycle theft (0.44 times) and miscellaneous crimes against society (0.48 times).

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

Of the 32 districts in the Metropolitan Police area with a figure for the year ending March 2026, Sutton had the 5th lowest 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 Sutton; the highest is Lambeth district (154.0 per 1,000) and the lowest Reigate and Banstead (69.9).

Of the 21 areas within Sutton, Sutton Central had the highest crime rate (144.6 per 1,000) and Belmont the lowest (43.9), 3 times apart.

The 10 locations below account for 21% of the crime recorded in Sutton over the 12 months to August 2026; the most were recorded at “Supermarket” (1,045).

Of the 13,276 crimes in Sutton with a recorded outcome, 37% ended with the investigation complete and no suspect identified, against 35% across England and Wales; 3.6% were awaiting a court outcome (England and Wales: 5.2%). The 3,254 anti-social behaviour reports have no outcome and are left out.

Sutton has an estimated population of 214,525 (ONS, mid-2024). On the Census 2021 measures below it is close to England and Wales as a whole. On the England IoD 2025, the small areas (LSOAs) that make up Sutton average decile 7.0 (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.