South Shields
England · E14001492
10,555 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, falling versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
10,555
Most common
Violence & sexual offences falling
3,501 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,192/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesfalling | 3,501 | 33.2% |
| Anti-social behaviourfalling | 1,908 | 18.1% |
| Shopliftingfalling | 1,290 | 12.2% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 1,031 | 9.8% |
| Public orderfalling | 755 | 7.2% |
| Other theftfalling | 509 | 4.8% |
| Other crimerising | 390 | 3.7% |
| Burglaryfalling | 360 | 3.4% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 275 | 2.6% |
| Drugsfalling | 220 | 2.1% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 112 | 1.1% |
| Robberyrising | 107 | 1.0% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 52 | 0.5% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 45 | 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.