Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket

England · E14001146

6,402 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
6,402
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
2,979 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

689/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesrising2,97946.5%
Criminal damage & arsonfalling5538.6%
Shopliftingfalling5298.3%
Public orderfalling4957.7%
Anti-social behaviourfalling4647.2%
Other theftfalling4256.6%
Drugsrising2644.1%
Other crime unchanged1742.7%
Vehicle crimerising1602.5%
Burglaryfalling1572.5%
Possession of weaponsfalling851.3%
Bicycle theftfalling460.7%
Robberyrising420.7%
Theft from the personfalling290.5%

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.