Warwickshire Crime Statistics
Last updated: 07 Jun 2026
The overall crime rate in Warwickshire as of April 2026 is 57 crimes per 1,000 people, and the most common crimes are violence and sexual offences, with reports coming from roughly every 24 out of 1,000 daytime population.
Comparing Warwickshire's larger towns and cities, and using Crime Risk Scores - which are calculated by taking severity of each crime type into account - Atherstone is the most dangerous. The next most dangerous is Nuneaton, and Bedworth comes in as third most dangerous. There are safer parts of Warwickshire, identified using the same Crime Risk measurement, starting with Polesworth which ranks as the safest area in Warwickshire, followed up by Kenilworth in second place, and Whitnash in third place.
Warwickshire Crime Map
Incidents mapped in Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire's crime statistics
This crime profile provides a detailed view of crime and safety around Warwickshire up to April 2026, the most recent data release available. The crime figures and statistics have been calculated across each of Warwickshire's 21,838 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.
Crime Risk Scores
Warwickshire • 12 Months Ending April 2026
The typical five-minute walk within Warwickshire has a crime risk score of 452. This is based on analysis of 21,838 nearby areas within Warwickshire, 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 Warwickshire's risk scores as, for example, robbery, or violence & sexual offences.
Within a five-minute walk of the typical location in Warwickshire, crime risk scores are typically around 452, while in West Midlands they are average 565.
Areas within a ten-minute walk typically see crime risk scores of 447 (562 for West Midlands), and scores within a fifteen-minute walk are most often around 452 (West Midlands 554).
Trends in Crime Risk
Warwickshire
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 14% in Warwickshire'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 Warwickshire's crime risk scores during this timeframe.
Over the last year, Warwickshire's crime risk score has shown a downward trend of approximately 1.7%, indicating that the risk profile is going down. This is an extremely short time period for crime trend analysis, and caution should be exercised when interpreting this figure.
Crime Rates and Indexes
Warwickshire
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
Warwickshire • 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.
Vehicle Crime offences have a crime rate of 4.65 reports per 1,000 people in Warwickshire, which is 1.08 times the national average. This figure is calculated from 3,300 crime reports logged by Warwickshire Police during the 12-month period ending April 2026.
For the same period, Warwickshire Police recorded 2,237 reports of Burglary in Warwickshire, resulting in a crime rate of 3.14 reports per 1,000, and a CrimeRate Index of 1.00.
The crime rate for Possession of Weapons is 0.99 times the national average at 0.84 reports per 1,000. This is from 594 crime reports reported to Warwickshire Police.
Most Significant 3-Year Increases in Crime Types
Warwickshire
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 1.08 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Burglary CrimeRate Index was 0.83 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 30% over this timeframe.
Robbery offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.50 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Robbery CrimeRate Index was 0.56 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 11% over this timeframe.
Public Order offences are trending upwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.81 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Public Order CrimeRate Index was 0.67 times the national average, and the current trend indicates an increase of 21% over this timeframe.
Most Significant 3-Year Decreases in Crime Types
Warwickshire
Calculated with the same methodology as the largest increases section above.
Drugs offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 0.52 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Drugs CrimeRate Index was 0.67 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 22% over this timeframe.
Possession of Weapons offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.00 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Possession of Weapons CrimeRate Index was 1.14 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 12% over this timeframe.
Vehicle Crime offences are trending downwards, and have a CrimeRate Index of 1.06 for the month of April 2026.
Three years ago, the monthly Vehicle Crime CrimeRate Index was 1.11 times the national average, and the current trend indicates a decrease of 4.5% over this timeframe.
Crime Type Breakdown & Heat Map
Warwickshire • 12 Months Ending April 2026
Size and colour reflect the CrimeRate Index figures for each type of crime.
Warwickshire | West Midlands | Warwickshire Police | |||||||
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| Crime Type | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| Anti-Social Behaviour | 11,358 | 16.01 | 1.13 | 59,827 | 8.79 | 0.62 | 11,399 | 15.87 | 1.12 |
| Bicycle Theft | 354 | 0.50 | 0.68 | 3,572 | 0.53 | 0.73 | 355 | 0.50 | 0.68 |
| Burglary | 2,237 | 3.14 | 1.00 | 24,188 | 3.54 | 1.13 | 2,260 | 3.15 | 1.01 |
| Criminal Damage and Arson | 3,498 | 4.92 | 0.78 | 43,744 | 6.42 | 1.02 | 3,539 | 4.92 | 0.78 |
| Drugs | 1,014 | 1.45 | 0.47 | 16,314 | 2.38 | 0.77 | 1,019 | 1.42 | 0.46 |
| Other Crime | 1,193 | 1.68 | 0.91 | 12,162 | 1.79 | 0.97 | 1,208 | 1.68 | 0.91 |
| Other Theft | 2,867 | 4.05 | 0.71 | 34,029 | 5.00 | 0.88 | 2,911 | 4.06 | 0.71 |
| Possession of Weapons | 594 | 0.84 | 0.99 | 9,710 | 1.44 | 1.69 | 599 | 0.84 | 0.99 |
| Public Order | 3,281 | 4.62 | 0.80 | 36,155 | 5.32 | 0.92 | 3,310 | 4.62 | 0.80 |
| Robbery | 505 | 0.70 | 0.59 | 9,171 | 1.35 | 1.14 | 512 | 0.72 | 0.61 |
| Shoplifting | 4,036 | 5.68 | 0.80 | 51,348 | 7.55 | 1.06 | 4,095 | 5.68 | 0.80 |
| Theft From the Person | 208 | 0.30 | 0.19 | 3,487 | 0.49 | 0.32 | 208 | 0.29 | 0.19 |
| Vehicle Crime | 3,300 | 4.65 | 1.08 | 38,628 | 5.68 | 1.32 | 3,351 | 4.65 | 1.08 |
| Violence and Sexual Offences | 17,088 | 24.09 | 0.79 | 231,901 | 34.05 | 1.12 | 17,251 | 24.04 | 0.79 |
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Total Crime by Year
Warwickshire | West Midlands | Warwickshire Police | |||||||
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| Year | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index | Count | Rate | Index |
| 2026 | 40,175 | 56.62 | 0.79 | 514,409 | 75.54 | 1.05 | 40,618 | 56.57 | 0.79 |
| 2025 | 39,445 | 56.12 | 0.76 | 516,162 | 76.32 | 1.03 | 39,894 | 56.13 | 0.76 |
| 2024 | 40,133 | 57.90 | 0.77 | 539,253 | 80.45 | 1.07 | 40,571 | 57.92 | 0.77 |
| 2023 | 41,604 | 61.10 | 0.77 | 598,904 | 90.62 | 1.15 | 42,016 | 61.08 | 0.77 |
| 2022 | 39,308 | 58.94 | 0.77 | 564,120 | 86.38 | 1.12 | 39,608 | 58.73 | 0.76 |
| 2021 | 37,025 | 56.44 | 0.82 | 463,870 | 71.46 | 1.04 | 37,288 | 56.26 | 0.82 |
| 2020 | 41,566 | 64.09 | 0.86 | 450,576 | 69.72 | 0.94 | 41,804 | 63.67 | 0.86 |
| 2019 | 42,599 | 66.24 | 0.87 | 460,715 | 71.52 | 0.94 | 42,866 | 65.86 | 0.86 |
| 2018 | 40,631 | 63.74 | 0.90 | 430,050 | 67.10 | 0.94 | 40,908 | 63.48 | 0.89 |
| 2017 | 37,401 | 59.13 | 0.92 | 395,755 | 62.08 | 0.97 | 37,672 | 58.93 | 0.92 |
| 2016 | 10,424 | 16.57 | 0.87 | 117,881 | 18.57 | 0.97 | 10,487 | 16.47 | 0.86 |
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The Warwickshire Streets With The Highest Crime Counts
Each police crime report that CrimeRate receives has a street name automatically assigned to it by the police data team, and this table uses the coordinates to count crimes, rather than the street name alone. That way, if Warwickshire has multiple identical street names - which is not unusual - they will be treated separately by CrimeRate's systems.
| Street | Crime Count | ||||||||
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| Manse Close Bedworth | 117 | ||||||||
| Regal Road Stratford-upon-Avon | 105 | ||||||||
| St Mary'S Terrace Royal Leamington Spa | 94 | ||||||||
| Stratford Street Nuneaton | 85 | ||||||||
| Chapel Street Rugby | 84 | ||||||||
| West View Road Cubbington | 52 | ||||||||
| Gerrard Street Warwick | 48 | ||||||||
| B4115 Ashow | 40 | ||||||||
| Petrol Station Churchover | 26 | ||||||||
| Willoughby Place Lighthorne Heath | 24 | ||||||||
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Town and City Comparison
| Town / City | Crime Count | Crime Rate | CrimeRate Index | ||||||
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| Nuneaton | 7,954 | 83.76 | 1.16 | ||||||
| Bedworth | 2,661 | 82.12 | 1.16 | ||||||
| Atherstone | 747 | 74.76 | 1.09 | ||||||
| Royal Leamington Spa | 4,196 | 72.08 | 1.00 | ||||||
| Stratford-upon-Avon | 2,656 | 67.47 | 0.94 | ||||||
| Warwick | 3,091 | 61.72 | 0.86 | ||||||
| Rugby | 5,009 | 60.36 | 0.84 | ||||||
| Kingsbury | 350 | 43.22 | 0.78 | ||||||
| Kenilworth | 956 | 38.39 | 0.56 | ||||||
| Polesworth | 337 | 36.02 | 0.64 | ||||||
| Whitnash | 321 | 29.52 | 0.54 | ||||||
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