Chelmsford
England · E14001159
10,613 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
10,613
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
4,457 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,153/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 4,457 | 42.0% |
| Shopliftingrising | 1,345 | 12.7% |
| Anti-social behaviourrising | 888 | 8.4% |
| Public orderfalling | 749 | 7.1% |
| Other theftfalling | 683 | 6.4% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 616 | 5.8% |
| Drugsrising | 593 | 5.6% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 355 | 3.3% |
| Burglaryfalling | 298 | 2.8% |
| Other crimefalling | 230 | 2.2% |
| Robberyrising | 107 | 1.0% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 103 | 1.0% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 97 | 0.9% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 92 | 0.9% |
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.