Reading Central
England · E14001438
14,767 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
14,767
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
5,213 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,429/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesrising | 5,213 | 35.3% |
| Shopliftingrising | 1,986 | 13.4% |
| Anti-social behaviourrising | 1,506 | 10.2% |
| Other theftrising | 1,249 | 8.5% |
| Public orderrising | 1,210 | 8.2% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 847 | 5.7% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 731 | 5.0% |
| Burglaryrising | 514 | 3.5% |
| Bicycle theftrising | 372 | 2.5% |
| Drugsrising | 330 | 2.2% |
| Other crimerising | 247 | 1.7% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 238 | 1.6% |
| Robberyrising | 233 | 1.6% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 91 | 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.