Colchester
England · E14001176
13,892 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
13,892
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
6,146 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,270/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 6,146 | 44.2% |
| Anti-social behaviourrising | 1,275 | 9.2% |
| Shopliftingrising | 1,216 | 8.8% |
| Public orderrising | 989 | 7.1% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 974 | 7.0% |
| Vehicle crimerising | 817 | 5.9% |
| Other theftrising | 812 | 5.8% |
| Drugsrising | 410 | 3.0% |
| Burglaryrising | 408 | 2.9% |
| Other crimerising | 260 | 1.9% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 208 | 1.5% |
| Robberyrising | 155 | 1.1% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 132 | 1.0% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 90 | 0.6% |
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.