East Midlands Crime Statistics
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The crime rate in the East Midlands is 70 crimes per 1,000 people, for the 12-month period ending July 2019. The most commonly-reported crimes are violence and sexual offences, reported at a rate of roughly 31 reports per 1,000 daytime population.
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Incidents mapped in East Midlands represent the time frame between January 2016 and July 2019. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Greater Manchester Police are behind schedule with their crime data updates, and the most recent data on data.police.uk for Greater Manchester Police is for July 2019.
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Introduction to East Midlands's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around East Midlands up to July 2019, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of East Midlands's 880 postcodes using three area sizes for comparison:
- Within a Five-Minute Walk
- Within a Ten-Minute Walk
- Within a Fifteen-Minute Walk
Individual crime risk scores and index figures are for the 12-month period ending July 2019 unless otherwise stated.
Crime Risk Scores
East Midlands • 12 Months Ending July 2019
The typical five-minute walk within East Midlands has a crime risk score of 456. This is based on analysis of 880 nearby areas within East Midlands, with "most" referring to roughly two thirds of the nearby locations.
Crime risk scores are on a scale of 1 to 1,000 and consider the severity of the crimes involved, as determined by sentencing guidelines. A score of 1 represents the lowest risk, and 1,000 the highest risk. This approach ensures that - unlike overall crime rate figures - bicycle theft is not given the same importance in East Midlands's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in East Midlands, crime risk scores are typically around 456, while in Northamptonshire Police they are average 465.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 465 (470 for Northamptonshire Police), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 478 (Northamptonshire Police 477).
Trends in Crime Risk
East Midlands
Calculated via Seasonal and Trend decomposition using Loess, the Seasonality Adjusted line represents the original data with seasonality subtracted, and the Trend line has been plotted unadjusted. Overall trend direction has been identified using the Mann-Kendall trend test, and rate calculated from the slope of the best-fit line identified from linear regression.
Over the last year, East Midlands's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 2.1%, indicating that the risk profile is going up. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
East Midlands
The CrimeRate Index shows how crime rates compare against the national average.
1.0 equals the average
2.0 is double
3.0 triple
0.5 is half and
0.25 a quarter.
Highest Crime Rates
East Midlands • 12 Months Ending July 2019
Excluding other crime and other theft because their geographic location is often not relevant, anti-social behaviour as its definition is too wide, and bicycle theft for its specificity.
Possession of Weapons offences have a crime rate of 0.82 reports per 1,000 people in East Midlands, which is 1.24 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 778 crime reports logged by Northamptonshire Police during the 12-month period ending July 2019.
For the same period, Northamptonshire Police recorded 4,825 reports of Public Order in East Midlands, resulting in a crime rate of 5.11 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 0.84.
The crime rate for Criminal Damage and Arson is 0.83 times the national average at 6.92 reports per 1,000. This is from 6,547 crime reports reported to Northamptonshire Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
East Midlands
Excluding other crime and other theft, anti-social behaviour, and bicycle theft, and calculated with the same STL method described in Trends in Crime Risk, using CrimeRate Index figures to identify crime types that are trending above or below the national average, and the analysis timeframe limited to the last three years.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.67 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 0.57 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 18% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.40 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 1.00 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 40% over this timeframe.
Criminal Damage and Arson offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.80 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Criminal Damage and Arson CrimeRate Index was 0.78 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 2.6% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
East Midlands
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Theft From the Person offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.50 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Theft From the Person CrimeRate Index was 0.70 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 29% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
East Midlands • 12 Months Ending July 2019
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
East Midlands | Northamptonshire Police | National | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 14,550 | 15.38 | 0.72 | 33,129 | 18.02 | 0.85 | 1,344,224 | 21.25 | 1.00 |
| Bicycle Theft | 1,121 | 1.20 | 0.88 | 2,299 | 1.25 | 0.91 | 86,349 | 1.37 | 1.00 |
| Burglary | 3,501 | 3.71 | 0.60 | 7,110 | 3.86 | 0.63 | 388,686 | 6.15 | 1.00 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 6,547 | 6.92 | 0.83 | 13,754 | 7.49 | 0.90 | 528,808 | 8.36 | 1.00 |
| Drugs | 1,758 | 1.87 | 0.81 | 3,650 | 2.00 | 0.87 | 145,816 | 2.30 | 1.00 |
| Other Crime | 1,105 | 1.17 | 0.78 | 2,307 | 1.24 | 0.83 | 95,159 | 1.50 | 1.00 |
| Other Theft | 5,544 | 5.87 | 0.73 | 12,182 | 6.64 | 0.82 | 509,577 | 8.05 | 1.00 |
| Possession of Weapons | 778 | 0.82 | 1.24 | 1,666 | 0.91 | 1.38 | 41,254 | 0.66 | 1.00 |
| Public Order | 4,825 | 5.11 | 0.84 | 10,448 | 5.67 | 0.94 | 383,528 | 6.06 | 1.00 |
| Robbery | 459 | 0.49 | 0.40 | 1,185 | 0.65 | 0.54 | 76,846 | 1.21 | 1.00 |
| Shoplifting | 3,525 | 3.74 | 0.68 | 7,466 | 4.05 | 0.74 | 345,484 | 5.46 | 1.00 |
| Theft From the Person | 621 | 0.66 | 0.46 | 1,510 | 0.82 | 0.57 | 90,004 | 1.43 | 1.00 |
| Vehicle Crime | 4,310 | 4.56 | 0.67 | 8,444 | 4.57 | 0.67 | 429,572 | 6.78 | 1.00 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 19,560 | 20.69 | 0.77 | 42,578 | 23.15 | 0.86 | 1,703,287 | 26.92 | 1.00 |
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Total Crime by Year
East Midlands | Northamptonshire Police | National | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2019 | 53,654 | 56.81 | 0.75 | 114,599 | 62.30 | 0.82 | 4,824,370 | 76.25 | 1.00 |
| 2018 | 51,092 | 54.30 | 0.76 | 110,104 | 60.05 | 0.84 | 4,484,151 | 71.12 | 1.00 |
| 2017 | 47,080 | 50.51 | 0.79 | 104,155 | 57.04 | 0.89 | 4,011,470 | 63.94 | 1.00 |
| 2016 | 14,156 | 15.21 | 0.80 | 30,695 | 16.86 | 0.88 | 1,195,221 | 19.07 | 1.00 |
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