Bridgwater

England · E14001126

12,771 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
12,771
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
5,550 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

1,231/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesrising5,55043.5%
Anti-social behaviourrising1,93315.1%
Public orderfalling1,2449.7%
Shopliftingfalling1,1218.8%
Criminal damage & arsonrising8496.6%
Other theftfalling6915.4%
Burglaryfalling3252.5%
Other crimerising2602.0%
Vehicle crimerising2481.9%
Drugsfalling1941.5%
Robberyrising1711.3%
Bicycle theftrising820.6%
Possession of weaponsrising770.6%
Theft from the personrising260.2%

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.