ANALYSIS: Largest Increase or Decrease Crime Reports
Find out which neighbourhoods, police forces, constituencies, and postcode districts have had the largest increase (or decrease) in crime, or use analysis 2 to find out which had the largest or smallest total/average.
Police Forces with the largest increase in All Crime + ASB (Between Dec 2010 and Mar 2023)
Rank | Police Forces | Total Dec 2010 | Total Mar 2023 | Difference | Percentage |
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1 | West Midlands Police | 22,585 | 32,452 | 9,867 | 43.69% |
2 | Staffordshire Police | 7,060 | 9,739 | 2,679 | 37.95% |
3 | West Yorkshire Police | 21,292 | 29,309 | 8,017 | 37.65% |
4 | Cleveland Police | 6,346 | 8,726 | 2,380 | 37.50% |
5 | Northumbria Police | 12,455 | 16,585 | 4,130 | 33.16% |
6 | Merseyside Police | 11,315 | 14,858 | 3,543 | 31.31% |
7 | Essex Police | 11,740 | 14,896 | 3,156 | 26.88% |
8 | Leicestershire Police | 7,339 | 9,216 | 1,877 | 25.58% |
9 | Kent Police | 12,580 | 15,793 | 3,213 | 25.54% |
10 | Humberside Police | 7,601 | 9,285 | 1,684 | 22.16% |
11 | Gloucestershire Constabulary | 4,602 | 5,581 | 979 | 21.27% |
12 | Dyfed-Powys Police | 3,350 | 4,046 | 696 | 20.78% |
13 | City of London Police | 590 | 709 | 119 | 20.17% |
14 | Derbyshire Constabulary | 8,331 | 9,982 | 1,651 | 19.82% |
15 | Durham Constabulary | 5,770 | 6,790 | 1,020 | 17.68% |
16 | Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 5,926 | 6,926 | 1,000 | 16.87% |
17 | Nottinghamshire Police | 10,148 | 11,547 | 1,399 | 13.79% |
18 | Lincolnshire Police | 4,998 | 5,627 | 629 | 12.59% |
19 | South Yorkshire Police | 14,370 | 16,006 | 1,636 | 11.38% |
20 | North Wales Police | 5,424 | 6,006 | 582 | 10.73% |
21 | Warwickshire Police | 3,958 | 4,315 | 357 | 9.02% |
22 | Lancashire Constabulary | 14,113 | 15,270 | 1,157 | 8.20% |
23 | Wiltshire Police | 4,340 | 4,664 | 324 | 7.47% |
24 | Northamptonshire Police | 6,023 | 6,467 | 444 | 7.37% |
25 | North Yorkshire Police | 5,351 | 5,636 | 285 | 5.33% |
26 | Norfolk Constabulary | 6,078 | 6,384 | 306 | 5.03% |
27 | Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 13,368 | 13,749 | 381 | 2.85% |
28 | Cheshire Constabulary | 7,358 | 7,438 | 80 | 1.09% |
29 | Metropolitan Police Service | 92,443 | 92,833 | 390 | 0.42% |
30 | Hampshire Constabulary | 16,092 | 16,041 | -51 | -0.32% |
31 | West Mercia Police | 9,649 | 9,422 | -227 | -2.35% |
32 | Hertfordshire Constabulary | 8,843 | 8,513 | -330 | -3.73% |
33 | Thames Valley Police | 19,572 | 18,223 | -1,349 | -6.89% |
34 | Cumbria Constabulary | 4,083 | 3,653 | -430 | -10.53% |
35 | Bedfordshire Police | 5,393 | 4,727 | -666 | -12.35% |
36 | Suffolk Constabulary | 5,634 | 4,922 | -712 | -12.64% |
37 | Dorset Police | 6,249 | 5,377 | -872 | -13.95% |
38 | South Wales Police | 13,923 | 11,365 | -2,558 | -18.37% |
39 | Surrey Police | 9,264 | 7,222 | -2,042 | -22.04% |
40 | Gwent Police | 6,927 | 5,255 | -1,672 | -24.14% |
41 | Greater Manchester Police | 26,127 | 0 | -26,127 | -100.00% |
42 | Devon & Cornwall Police | 11,009 | 0 | -11,009 | -100.00% |
43 | Sussex Police | 12,111 | 0 | -12,111 | -100.00% |
44 | Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0 | 13,070 | 13,070 | 0 (N/A) |
0(N/A) Data may not have been reported by this Police force
The Economic Policy Centre www.economicpolicycentre.com has made every effort in order to ensure that the data for UkCrimeStats is accurate and up to date. However, we are aware of certain deficiencies in this data which are beyond our control. That's because as a 3rd party developer, we do not collect the data, the Police do who then hand it over to another data company to release to 3rd party developers such as ourselves. We only download and analyse it so that you can use it. For full detail of these deficiencies, please read here.