Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
England · E14001206
8,672 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, falling versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
8,672
Most common
Violence & sexual offences falling
2,924 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
884/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesfalling | 2,924 | 33.7% |
| Anti-social behaviourfalling | 1,542 | 17.8% |
| Vehicle crimerising | 676 | 7.8% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 633 | 7.3% |
| Shopliftingfalling | 630 | 7.3% |
| Other theftfalling | 588 | 6.8% |
| Public orderfalling | 519 | 6.0% |
| Burglaryrising | 364 | 4.2% |
| Drugsrising | 270 | 3.1% |
| Other crimerising | 214 | 2.5% |
| Robberyrising | 149 | 1.7% |
| Bicycle theftrising | 70 | 0.8% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 60 | 0.7% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 33 | 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.