City of Durham
England · E14001173
11,800 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
11,800
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
3,991 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,101/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 3,991 | 33.8% |
| Anti-social behaviourrising | 2,400 | 20.3% |
| Shopliftingrising | 1,376 | 11.7% |
| Criminal damage & arsonrising | 1,047 | 8.9% |
| Public order unchanged | 835 | 7.1% |
| Other theftrising | 557 | 4.7% |
| Burglaryrising | 459 | 3.9% |
| Other crimerising | 354 | 3.0% |
| Vehicle crimerising | 325 | 2.8% |
| Drugsfalling | 210 | 1.8% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 88 | 0.7% |
| Robberyrising | 64 | 0.5% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 52 | 0.4% |
| Theft from the personrising | 42 | 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.