Police force areas ranked by crime rate

All police force areas in England and Wales ranked by recorded crime rate in the 12 months to July 2026.

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Ranked by crime per 1,000 residents over the 12 months to July 2026. The England and Wales rate was 96.4; the index column compares each area with it (1.00 = national rate). Rates for city and town centres are inflated by visitors and commuters, who are not counted in the resident population.

Rank	Area	In	Crimes	Per 1,000	Index
1	City of London	England	9,805	648.9	6.73
2	Cleveland	England	93,468	155.7	1.62
3	Metropolitan Police	England	1,121,123	123.5	1.28
4	Durham	England	78,271	120.3	1.25
5	West Yorkshire	England	291,429	119.7	1.24
6	Gwent	Wales	70,783	117.6	1.22
7	South Yorkshire	England	165,328	115.6	1.20
8	West Midlands	England	322,332	106.1	1.10
9	Nottinghamshire	England	124,757	105.0	1.09
10	Avon and Somerset	England	188,371	103.9	1.08
11	Merseyside	England	152,961	103.7	1.08
12	Lancashire	England	165,932	103.6	1.08
13	Humberside	England	98,156	102.0	1.06
14	Northumbria	England	147,979	98.0	1.02
15	Derbyshire	England	102,878	93.8	0.97
16	North Wales	Wales	65,033	93.3	0.97
17	Sussex	England	161,306	91.7	0.95
18	Lincolnshire	England	72,075	91.3	0.95
19	South Wales	Wales	124,335	91.2	0.95
20	Kent	England	175,300	90.7	0.94
21	Staffordshire	England	106,686	90.6	0.94
22	Northamptonshire	England	73,391	90.2	0.94
23	Cambridgeshire	England	82,360	88.2	0.92
24	Hertfordshire	England	105,683	85.5	0.89
25	Dyfed-Powys	Wales	44,793	85.4	0.89
26	Leicestershire	England	100,423	85.4	0.89
27	Essex	England	163,711	84.8	0.88
28	Gloucestershire	England	55,492	82.9	0.86
29	Warwickshire	England	51,918	82.1	0.85
30	Hampshire	England	165,842	80.4	0.83
31	Bedfordshire	England	59,529	79.4	0.82
32	Cumbria	England	39,588	77.5	0.80
33	Devon & Cornwall	England	140,218	76.2	0.79
34	Thames Valley	England	193,968	73.5	0.76
35	Cheshire	England	83,531	73.3	0.76
36	West Mercia	England	96,563	72.0	0.75
37	North Yorkshire	England	59,780	70.8	0.73
38	Norfolk	England	66,242	70.4	0.73
39	Surrey	England	87,826	70.3	0.73
40	Dorset	England	56,174	70.3	0.73
41	Wiltshire	England	51,651	67.3	0.70
42	Suffolk	England	48,709	62.0	0.64

Recorded crime depends on reporting and recording as well as on offending, so small differences between areas should not be over-read. See the methodology.

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