Wakefield and Rothwell
England · E14001560
14,790 crimes recorded in the last 12 months – violence & sexual offences is the most common, falling versus the year before.
Recorded crimes (last 12m)
14,790
Most common
Violence & sexual offences falling
6,344 reports
Data to
Apr 2026
Crimes per month
1,565/mo peak0 baseline
May 23Apr 26
By type (last 12 months)
| Category | Reports | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence & sexual offencesfalling | 6,344 | 42.9% |
| Anti-social behaviourrising | 1,477 | 10.0% |
| Shopliftingfalling | 1,237 | 8.4% |
| Public orderfalling | 1,202 | 8.1% |
| Criminal damage & arsonfalling | 956 | 6.5% |
| Other theftfalling | 821 | 5.6% |
| Vehicle crimefalling | 679 | 4.6% |
| Drugsrising | 563 | 3.8% |
| Burglaryfalling | 533 | 3.6% |
| Other crimefalling | 474 | 3.2% |
| Robberyrising | 171 | 1.2% |
| Possession of weaponsfalling | 145 | 1.0% |
| Theft from the personfalling | 109 | 0.7% |
| Bicycle theftfalling | 79 | 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.