Preston
England · E14001433
19,264 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
19,264
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
6,222 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,985/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 6,222 | 32.3% |
| Anti-social behaviourfalling | 5,120 | 26.6% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 1,389 | 7.2% |
| Shopliftingfalling | 1,320 | 6.9% |
| Other theftfalling | 1,046 | 5.4% |
| Public orderfalling | 1,027 | 5.3% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 773 | 4.0% |
| Drugsrising | 610 | 3.2% |
| Burglaryfalling | 547 | 2.8% |
| Other crimefalling | 405 | 2.1% |
| Possession of weaponsrising | 247 | 1.3% |
| Bicycle theftrising | 238 | 1.2% |
| Robberyrising | 226 | 1.2% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 94 | 0.5% |
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.