Home Office — data.police.uk
Street-Level Crime & Outcomes
Every crime reported to the police in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, published monthly at street level — from burglary and vehicle crime to anti-social behaviour — including how each case was resolved.
At a glance
- Publisher
- Home Office — data.police.uk
- Updates
- Updated monthly
- Cost
- Free — open data
- Last checked
- 2026-07-12
What your business can use it for
- Risk assessmentScore any location by crime type, volume and trend before you open, insure or secure a site — and evidence it to insurers or landlords.
- Site selectionCompare candidate locations on the crime mix that matters to you — shoplifting for retail, vehicle crime for depots, anti-social behaviour for hospitality.
- Market analysisCrime levels shape footfall, rents and customer behaviour — add them to any analysis of the areas you trade in.
Works with data you already have
- Your site, branch or delivery-area postcodesPostcodesCrimes carry LSOA codes and lat/lon; link postcodes to LSOA via the free ONS postcode lookup
- Locations you already map (stores, depots, properties)Map coordinatesWGS84 coordinates on every record (anonymised snap points)
How to get it
- Custom CSV download by police force and monthBulk downloadNo account needed. Pick forces and a date range, get a zip of monthly CSVs.
- Police API (street-level crimes, outcomes, neighbourhoods)APIFree, no key required. Query crimes within a radius or polygon of any location.
What's involved in using it
- The data arrives as thousands of separate monthly files — one for each police force, each month — so before you can look at your own area you have to gather and stack them all together into one set.
- Crime locations are deliberately nudged to nearby anonymised 'snap points' rather than exact addresses, so it's reliable for comparing streets and neighbourhoods but can't pinpoint a specific building.
- Crimes are labelled by small statistical neighbourhood, not by postcode, so you need a free postcode lookup to connect them to your own sites or customers.
The technical detail, for whoever sets it up (2)
- Scotland is not included — Police Scotland publishes separately.
- Recording practices differ between police forces, so compare trends within a force rather than raw counts across forces.
Ask us about Street-Level Crime & Outcomes
Ask a factual question about Street-Level Crime & Outcomes — what it covers, how often it changes, whether it matches the records you keep — and we will answer, free. Or tell us what you are trying to work out, and we will tell you what it would take to get this data working next to the numbers you already have.