Chorley
England · E14001170
8,744 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
8,744
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
3,435 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
894/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 3,435 | 39.3% |
| Anti-social behaviourfalling | 2,305 | 26.4% |
| Criminal damage & arsonrising | 662 | 7.6% |
| Shopliftingfalling | 441 | 5.0% |
| Other theftfalling | 426 | 4.9% |
| Public orderrising | 412 | 4.7% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 254 | 2.9% |
| Burglaryfalling | 210 | 2.4% |
| Other crimefalling | 203 | 2.3% |
| Drugsrising | 200 | 2.3% |
| Possession of weapons unchanged | 77 | 0.9% |
| Robberyrising | 56 | 0.6% |
| Theft from the personrising | 32 | 0.4% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 31 | 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.