Scarborough and Whitby

England · E14001461

12,574 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, rising versus the year before.

Recorded crimes (last 12m)
12,574
Most common
Violence & sexual offences rising
4,487 reports
Data to
Apr 2026

Crimes per month

1,258/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26

By type (last 12 months)

CategoryReportsShare
Violence & sexual offencesrising4,48735.7%
Anti-social behaviourrising3,40427.1%
Shopliftingrising1,25310.0%
Criminal damage & arsonrising9767.8%
Public orderfalling6345.0%
Other theftrising5024.0%
Drugsrising4333.4%
Burglaryrising2401.9%
Vehicle crimefalling1791.4%
Other crimefalling1761.4%
Possession of weaponsrising1351.1%
Robberyrising730.6%
Bicycle theftfalling550.4%
Theft from the person unchanged270.2%

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
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.