Ashford

England · E14001069

9,290 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, falling versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
9,290
Most common
Violence & sexual offences falling
3,400 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

1,090/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesfalling3,40036.6%
Anti-social behaviourrising1,62217.5%
Shopliftingfalling97310.5%
Criminal damage & arsonfalling7838.4%
Other theftfalling6046.5%
Public orderfalling4364.7%
Drugsrising3433.7%
Other crimefalling2803.0%
Vehicle crimefalling2732.9%
Burglaryrising2432.6%
Possession of weaponsrising1311.4%
Bicycle theftrising870.9%
Robberyrising720.8%
Theft from the person unchanged430.5%

The open street-level feed merges violence and sexual offences into one category. Splitting them (e.g. homicide vs sexual assault) needs ONS force-level tables, modelled to constituency in a later step.

Partial coverageSource: Street-level crime, data.police.uk (Home Office)· How we know this
Source
Street-level crime
Publisher
data.police.uk (Home Office)
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0
Retrieved
2026-09-18
How it's mapped
Aggregated from smaller areas to the constituency on a best-fit basis.

Some areas or categories are missing from this source, so treat it as partial.

Source: data.police.uk, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.