Bedford

England · E14001084

13,514 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
13,514
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
4,857 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

1,395/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesrising4,85735.9%
Anti-social behaviourfalling2,02715.0%
Shopliftingfalling1,2299.1%
Public orderfalling1,0057.4%
Criminal damage & arsonfalling8476.3%
Other theftfalling8035.9%
Vehicle crimefalling7825.8%
Drugsrising5924.4%
Burglaryfalling3912.9%
Other crimefalling3292.4%
Bicycle theftfalling2151.6%
Robberyrising1921.4%
Possession of weaponsrising1531.1%
Theft from the personfalling920.7%

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.