Melksham and Devizes
England · E14001356
5,556 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
5,556
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
2,202 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
549/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 2,202 | 39.6% |
| Anti-social behaviourrising | 1,193 | 21.5% |
| Criminal damage & arsonrising | 494 | 8.9% |
| Public orderrising | 416 | 7.5% |
| Shopliftingfalling | 290 | 5.2% |
| Other theftfalling | 276 | 5.0% |
| Burglaryfalling | 174 | 3.1% |
| Other crimefalling | 146 | 2.6% |
| Drugsrising | 139 | 2.5% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 114 | 2.1% |
| Possession of weaponsrising | 45 | 0.8% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 32 | 0.6% |
| Robberyrising | 18 | 0.3% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 17 | 0.3% |
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.