Burnley
England · E14001142
15,406 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
15,406
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
5,262 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,480/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 5,262 | 34.2% |
| Anti-social behaviourfalling | 3,655 | 23.7% |
| Shopliftingrising | 1,212 | 7.9% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 1,181 | 7.7% |
| Burglaryrising | 788 | 5.1% |
| Public orderrising | 779 | 5.1% |
| Other theftfalling | 747 | 4.8% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 589 | 3.8% |
| Other crimefalling | 386 | 2.5% |
| Drugsrising | 384 | 2.5% |
| Possession of weaponsrising | 160 | 1.0% |
| Robberyrising | 125 | 0.8% |
| Bicycle theftrising | 78 | 0.5% |
| Theft from the personrising | 60 | 0.4% |
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· Hide
- 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.