Crime and Safety in Nottingham
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
Nottingham is the most dangerous major city in Nottinghamshire, and is among the top 10 most dangerous overall out of Nottinghamshire's 236 towns, villages, and cities. The overall crime rate in Nottingham in 2026 is 108 crimes per 1,000 people. This compares poorly to Nottinghamshire's overall crime rate, coming in 37% higher than the Nottinghamshire rate of 78 per 1,000 daytime population. For England, Wales, and Northern Ireland as a whole, Nottingham is the most dangerous major city, and the 333rd most dangerous location out of all towns, cities, and villages.
In March 2023, Nottingham had the worst crime rate in Nottinghamshire for theft from the person, with 54 crimes reported and a crime rate of 0.14 per 1,000 daytime population. October 2022 was also a bad month for Nottingham residents, when it was again Nottinghamshire's most dangerous area for theft from the person, recording 105 crimes at a rate of 0.27 per 1,000 daytime population.
The most common crimes in Nottingham are violence and sexual offences, with 15,823 offences during 2026, giving a crime rate of 40. This is 4.9% higher than 2025's figure of 15,089 offences and a difference of 1.84 from 2025's crime rate of 38. Nottingham's least common crime is bicycle theft, with 601 offences recorded in 2026, an increase of 4.7% from 2025's figure of 574 crimes.
Nottingham 2026 Crime Scorecard
Most Dangerous
Major Cities, Nottinghamshire
54% higher, regional crime rate
East Midlands
50% higher, national crime rate
England, Wales & NI
Local Crime in Context
As of April 2026, the crime rate in Nottingham is 54% higher than the East Midlands and 50% higher than the England, Wales & Northern Ireland overall figure.
Nottingham Crime Rate Over Time
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Nottingham Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Nottingham represent the time frame between January 2016 and April 2026. Each point on the map represents an area where crimes have been recorded locally.
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Introduction to Nottingham's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Nottingham up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Nottingham's 6,806 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 April 2026 unless otherwise stated.
CrimeRate Insights
Looking into a specific address in Nottingham? CrimeRate Insights reports convert raw numbers into practical insight for any location, from single addresses and postcodes, up to major towns and cities.
Crime rates don’t happen by themselves; they follow people and patterns. Where crowds gather - near pubs and late-night venues, around the station, by supermarkets and forecourts - incidents naturally concentrate.
That doesn’t mean an area is "bad"; it usually means footfall is higher.
Your report explores these factors in a calm, non-judgemental way, putting the numbers in context and helping you spot what’s typical for places like this.
Crime Risk Scores
Nottingham • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Nottingham has a crime risk score of 637. This is based on analysis of 6,806 nearby areas within Nottingham, 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 Nottingham's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Nottingham, crime risk scores are typically around 637, while in Nottinghamshire they are average 469.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 689 (475 for Nottinghamshire), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 728 (Nottinghamshire 487).
Trends in Crime Risk
Nottingham
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.
The 10-year trend indicates a decrease of 13% in Nottingham's crime risk score. This is potentially a strong signal of how the crime risk is evolving. Cross-referencing with major cultural events and Covid's impact during this time is advised.
The five-year trend may be static; no significant trend was identified in Nottingham's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Nottingham's crime risk score has shown an upward trend of approximately 7%, 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
Nottingham
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
Nottingham • 12 Months Ending April 2026
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 1.97 reports per 1,000 people in Nottingham, which is 2.32 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 780 crime reports logged by Nottinghamshire Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Nottinghamshire Police recorded 1,044 reports of Robbery in Nottingham, resulting in a crime rate of 2.63 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 2.23.
The crime rate for Shoplifting is 2.02 times the national average at 14 reports per 1,000. This is from 5,713 crime reports reported to Nottinghamshire Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Nottingham
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.
Burglary offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.54 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 1.17 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 32% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.30 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 1.22 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 89% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.46 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 1.16 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 26% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Nottingham
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Drugs offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.83 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 2.62 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 30% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.57 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 2.86 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 10% over this timeframe.
Shoplifting offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 2.12 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Shoplifting CrimeRate Index was 2.40 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 12% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Nottingham • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
Nottingham | Nottinghamshire | East Midlands | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 8,216 | 20.76 | 1.47 | 20,414 | 15.50 | 1.10 | 82,288 | 14.84 | 1.05 |
| Bicycle Theft | 601 | 1.52 | 2.08 | 1,121 | 0.86 | 1.18 | 3,605 | 0.66 | 0.90 |
| Burglary | 1,583 | 4.00 | 1.28 | 4,042 | 3.08 | 0.98 | 16,428 | 2.97 | 0.95 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 3,964 | 10.02 | 1.60 | 10,294 | 7.82 | 1.25 | 36,709 | 6.63 | 1.06 |
| Drugs | 1,983 | 5.01 | 1.62 | 3,806 | 2.90 | 0.94 | 14,102 | 2.53 | 0.82 |
| Other Crime | 1,349 | 3.42 | 1.85 | 4,302 | 3.29 | 1.78 | 11,549 | 2.09 | 1.13 |
| Other Theft | 3,424 | 8.65 | 1.52 | 7,726 | 5.87 | 1.03 | 28,010 | 5.03 | 0.88 |
| Possession of Weapons | 780 | 1.97 | 2.32 | 1,682 | 1.27 | 1.49 | 5,077 | 0.92 | 1.08 |
| Public Order | 3,291 | 8.31 | 1.43 | 7,248 | 5.50 | 0.95 | 33,621 | 6.06 | 1.04 |
| Robbery | 1,044 | 2.63 | 2.23 | 1,898 | 1.43 | 1.21 | 5,222 | 0.95 | 0.81 |
| Shoplifting | 5,713 | 14.43 | 2.02 | 14,082 | 10.71 | 1.50 | 41,773 | 7.51 | 1.05 |
| Theft From the Person | 695 | 1.76 | 1.14 | 1,067 | 0.81 | 0.52 | 2,834 | 0.51 | 0.33 |
| Vehicle Crime | 2,413 | 6.10 | 1.42 | 5,554 | 4.21 | 0.98 | 20,391 | 3.67 | 0.85 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 15,823 | 39.95 | 1.31 | 40,476 | 30.74 | 1.01 | 169,276 | 30.51 | 1.00 |
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Total Crime by Year
Nottingham | Nottinghamshire | East Midlands | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 42,663 | 107.77 | 1.50 | 103,298 | 78.49 | 1.09 | 388,597 | 70.04 | 0.97 |
| 2025 | 39,724 | 101.08 | 1.37 | 97,463 | 74.60 | 1.01 | 391,366 | 71.16 | 0.96 |
| 2024 | 40,280 | 103.86 | 1.38 | 100,090 | 77.50 | 1.03 | 401,136 | 73.81 | 0.98 |
| 2023 | 41,581 | 107.76 | 1.36 | 104,108 | 81.43 | 1.03 | 420,118 | 78.15 | 0.99 |
| 2022 | 41,536 | 108.90 | 1.42 | 100,566 | 79.70 | 1.04 | 404,389 | 76.27 | 0.99 |
| 2021 | 33,772 | 88.37 | 1.29 | 87,058 | 69.37 | 1.01 | 361,494 | 68.61 | 1.00 |
| 2020 | 42,007 | 109.51 | 1.48 | 103,580 | 82.71 | 1.12 | 388,888 | 74.15 | 1.00 |
| 2019 | 45,036 | 117.15 | 1.54 | 107,727 | 86.11 | 1.13 | 375,243 | 71.88 | 0.94 |
| 2018 | 40,825 | 105.81 | 1.49 | 98,265 | 78.72 | 1.11 | 331,940 | 64.14 | 0.90 |
| 2017 | 34,680 | 89.96 | 1.41 | 83,249 | 66.98 | 1.05 | 297,381 | 58.03 | 0.91 |
| 2016 | 9,275 | 24.09 | 1.26 | 22,725 | 18.35 | 0.96 | 87,914 | 17.17 | 0.90 |
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Comparing Nottingham to the UK's Major Cities
12 Months Ending Apr 2026
| City Name | Crime Rate | Rate Difference |
|---|---|---|
| Cardiff | 79.55 | 26% safer |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 82.69 | 23% safer |
| Sheffield | 84.09 | 22% safer |
| Leicester | 97.87 | 9% safer |
| Bristol | 104.64 | 2.9% safer |
| Birmingham | 105.05 | 2.5% safer |
| Liverpool | 106.48 | 1.2% safer |
| Leeds | 107.10 | 0.62% safer |
| Nottingham | 107.77 | - |
| Westminster | 125.00 | 16% more dangerous |
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Offences In and Around Nottingham's Parks & Leisure Spaces
Limited to spaces in Nottingham that are named and have had crimes recorded within their boundaries in the 12 months to Apr 2026.
| Name | ASB | Drugs | Public Order | Robbery | VSO | All Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bar Lane Allotments | 5 | 3 | 1 | - | 13 | 16 |
| Dunkirk Park | 1 | - | - | - | 1 | 1 |
| Holme Pierrepont National Water Sports Centre and Country Park | 2 | 1 | 1 | - | - | 2 |
| Lenton Priory park | 8 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 8 |
| Sherwin Road Community Garden | 11 | 1 | 3 | - | 14 | 24 |
| Seaford Avenue Park | - | - | - | - | 7 | 7 |
| Rushford Drive Park | 2 | - | - | - | 9 | 2 |
| Lenton Leisure Centre | 12 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 14 | 111 |
| Clifton Green | - | - | 1 | - | - | 0 |
| Cliveden Green | 1 | - | 1 | - | 15 | 7 |
| Trent Fields | 8 | 1 | 4 | - | 16 | 20 |
| Barton Green Park | 2 | - | 1 | - | 8 | 5 |
| Nottingham Padel Centre | 1 | 1 | 5 | - | 4 | 10 |
| Collin Street Play Area | 101 | 13 | 19 | 7 | 83 | 80 |
| High Wood Cemetery | - | - | - | 1 | 2 | 0 |
| Bulwell Hall Community Garden | 3 | 1 | 4 | - | 14 | 10 |
| Bulwell Hall Park | 4 | - | 2 | - | 3 | 6 |
| Ken Martin Swimming Pool | 18 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 8 | 76 |
| Mellish Sports Centre | 2 | - | 2 | - | 26 | 14 |
| Southglade Leisure Centre | 70 | 4 | 13 | 1 | 63 | 67 |
| The Ridge Adventure Playground | 7 | 1 | 1 | - | 12 | 5 |
| Edwards Lane Community Park | 10 | 1 | 2 | - | 26 | 8 |
| Broxtowe Country Park | 62 | 7 | 16 | 3 | 104 | 120 |
| Strelley Recreation Ground | 2 | - | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 |
| King George V Playing Fields | 4 | - | - | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| Old Park Farm Gardens | 1 | 3 | - | - | 3 | 0 |
| Harvey Hadden Sports Centre | 27 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 51 | 64 |
| Vernon Park | 23 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 41 | 28 |
| Heathfield Park | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 23 | 17 |
| Birchover Road Recreation Ground | 6 | - | - | - | 15 | 10 |
| Radford Bridge Allotments | - | - | - | - | - | 1 |
| Wollaton Park | 17 | 2 | 8 | - | 25 | 41 |
| Queen Anne's Bowling Green | 1 | - | - | - | - | 4 |
| Climbing Centre | 2 | - | 4 | - | 13 | 4 |
| Woodthorpe Allotments | 2 | - | 1 | - | 6 | 6 |
| John Farr Rest Garden | 16 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 26 | 35 |
| Church Cemetery | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 19 | 30 |
| Coppice Recreation Ground | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 29 | 15 |
| Bellar Gate Rest Garden | 8 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 |
| Barker Gate Rest Garden | 47 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 34 | 41 |
| Victoria Leisure Centre | 14 | - | 8 | 1 | 13 | 23 |
| The National Ice Centre | 27 | 2 | 8 | 2 | 46 | 59 |
| Arkwright Meadows Community Garden | 9 | 2 | 1 | - | 9 | 7 |
| Portland Leisure Centre | 11 | - | 5 | 1 | 13 | 21 |
| Colesbourne Children's Playground | 10 | 1 | 1 | - | 14 | 17 |
| Farnborough Leisure Centre | 16 | - | 4 | 1 | 6 | 9 |
| Klondyke Allotment Gardens | 2 | 1 | - | - | 2 | 5 |
| Gresham Sports Park | - | - | 2 | - | 10 | 7 |
| Northern Cemetery | 13 | 5 | 6 | - | 32 | 10 |
| Bestwood Country Park | 15 | 8 | 3 | - | 51 | 25 |
| Old Basford Allotments | 3 | - | 2 | - | 7 | 9 |
| Bagthorpe Allotments | - | - | 1 | - | 7 | 5 |
| Whitemoor Allotments | 5 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 8 |
| New Aspley Gardens | 3 | 1 | 1 | - | 25 | 12 |
| Windmill Gardens | 4 | 1 | 1 | - | 10 | 6 |
| Moorfield Allotment Gardens | 20 | 4 | 8 | - | 40 | 21 |
| Radford Recreation Ground | 35 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 40 | 208 |
| Christ Church Rest Garden | 11 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 10 | 21 |
| Bagthorpe Gardens | 4 | - | 1 | - | 4 | 12 |
| Woodthorpe Grange Park | 6 | 1 | 1 | - | 13 | 15 |
| Sunken Gardens | 4 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 4 |
| Forest Recreation Ground | 47 | 16 | 35 | 13 | 85 | 111 |
| Chinese Bell Garden | 17 | 10 | 8 | - | 49 | 54 |
| Hungerhill Gardens | 17 | 6 | 10 | 1 | 42 | 56 |
| General Cemetery | 19 | 20 | 13 | 9 | 66 | 70 |
| St Mary's Rest Garden | 23 | 19 | 12 | 5 | 15 | 76 |
| Victoria Park | 17 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 11 | 20 |
| King Edward Park | 13 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 77 | 42 |
| Colwick Country Park | 6 | - | 2 | - | 8 | 14 |
| Clifton Central Flower Park | 34 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 35 | 19 |
| George's Green | 28 | 9 | 16 | 2 | 37 | 37 |
| Merlin Park | 4 | - | - | - | 5 | 8 |
| Edingley Square Community Garden | 1 | - | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 |
| Chediston Vale Park | 17 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15 | 15 |
| St John's Planter | 5 | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| Hazel Hill Crescent Open Space | 2 | - | - | - | 3 | 6 |
Recent Crimes in Nottingham
The 20 most recent crime reports in Nottingham.
| Date | Crime Type | Location | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Vere Street | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Goathland Close | |
| April 2026 | Anti-social behaviour | On or near Far Rye | |
| April 2026 | Burglary | On or near Woodhouse Mews | |
| April 2026 | Criminal damage and arson | On or near Widecombe Lane | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Hemsby Gardens | |
| April 2026 | Other theft | On or near Pitcairn Close | |
| April 2026 | Public order | On or near Campbell Close | |
| April 2026 | Shoplifting | On or near Supermarket | |
| April 2026 | Vehicle crime | On or near Wheeler Gate | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Astwood Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Ingleby Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Bucklow Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Vere Street | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Astwood Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near St Martin'S Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Bucklow Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near St Martin'S Close | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Norwood Road | |
| April 2026 | Violence and sexual offences | On or near Widecombe Lane |
Methodology & Data Sources
Nottingham Crime Report
Data Sources & Processing
Every month, CrimeRate processes crime reports from data.police.uk, the UK's official provider of open crime report data. Each crime report includes anonymised coordinates, most often "snapped" to the middle of the nearest street, or to the nearest major landmark. The reports also include the month and year the crime was reported, as well as the type of crime.
Data releases on data.police.uk happen once a month, with a two-month delay. This means that, for example, crimes reported in Nottingham during August 2026 will typically become available in October 2026. The latest release is for Apr 2026 and was released in Jun 2026. To provide current and historical crime statistics, CrimeRate processed 61,669,232 crime reports for the latest release.
Nottingham Data Points
For Nottingham, CrimeRate uses the geographic boundaries provided by The Office for National Statistics in the December 2023 release of their Parishes and Non Civil Parished Areas dataset, using the PARNCP23CD column value E43000016.
Due to the 2021 Census being conducted during a UK-wide Coronavirus lockdown, the daytime population figures released so far cannot be relied on for purposes such as comparing crime rates. Instead, CrimeRate uses Nottingham's daytime - or "workday" - population of 357,082 from the ONS 2011 Census for calculations throughout the site.
All geographic boundaries use the full resolution - extent of the realm versions where provided to avoid missing crime reports near coastlines and rivers - the banks of the Thames in particular - that would otherwise not be included when using the clipped to the coastline datasets.
Calculating Crime Rates
CrimeRate locates the UK region, county, and town/city/village locality for each crime report, and calculates the crime rate by taking the sum of all crime reports, dividing it by the locality's daytime / "workday" population, and multiplying the result by 1,000 to get the crime rate per 1,000.
Crime Risk Score Calculations
CrimeRate calculates crime counts for local, nearby, and wider areas for every postcode in England, Wales, and Northern Ireland. The postcodes locations are deduplicated by a process that ensures distinct points are approximately 50 metres apart. This process removes the bias that would otherwise come from counting the same crimes several times in heavily populated areas.
Using a custom algorithm developed in-house, CrimeRate applies a crime severity weighting to each area's crime counts, based on the type of crime reported. This increases or decreases the crime count, or zeroes it out entirely, depending on the crime type. A separate crime severity rate is then calculated, standardised, and scaled to fit the crime risk score range of 1 to 1,000, with 1 being the lowest score, and 1,000 the highest.
Crime risk scores undergo further analysis per town, city, and village plus other areas including police forces and neighbourhoods. CrimeRate uses percentiles to work out the most common range of crime risk scores in each locality. This includes identifying the high and low bounds where approximately 68% of scores fall, and finding the median (50th percentile) for easy reference.
The crime types with a weight of zero are: Anti-Social Behaviour; Bicycle Theft; Other Crime; Other Theft; and Shoplifting. The highest weights to are assigned to Violence & Sexual Offences, and the lowest to Vehicle Crime.
Frequently Asked Questions
Crime in Nottingham