ANALYSIS: Largest Increase or Decrease Crime Reports
Find out which neighbourhoods, police forces, constituencies, and postcode districts have had the largest increase (or decrease) in crime, or use analysis 2 to find out which had the largest or smallest total/average.
Police Forces with the largest increase in All Crime + ASB (Between Dec 2010 and Feb 2024)
| Rank | Police Forces | Total Dec 2010 | Total Feb 2024 | Difference | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City of London Police | 590 | 826 | 236 | 40.00% |
| 2 | West Midlands Police | 22,585 | 26,067 | 3,482 | 15.42% |
| 3 | Northumbria Police | 12,455 | 13,846 | 1,391 | 11.17% |
| 4 | Kent Police | 12,580 | 13,953 | 1,373 | 10.91% |
| 5 | Leicestershire Police | 7,339 | 7,999 | 660 | 8.99% |
| 6 | Essex Police | 11,740 | 12,722 | 982 | 8.36% |
| 7 | Staffordshire Police | 7,060 | 7,590 | 530 | 7.51% |
| 8 | West Yorkshire Police | 21,292 | 22,740 | 1,448 | 6.80% |
| 9 | Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 5,926 | 6,254 | 328 | 5.53% |
| 10 | Cleveland Police | 6,346 | 6,641 | 295 | 4.65% |
| 11 | Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 13,368 | 13,862 | 494 | 3.70% |
| 12 | Humberside Police | 7,601 | 7,729 | 128 | 1.68% |
| 13 | Merseyside Police | 11,315 | 11,475 | 160 | 1.41% |
| 14 | Gloucestershire Constabulary | 4,602 | 4,629 | 27 | 0.59% |
| 15 | Lancashire Constabulary | 14,113 | 13,916 | -197 | -1.40% |
| 16 | Devon & Cornwall Police | 11,009 | 10,854 | -155 | -1.41% |
| 17 | Lincolnshire Police | 4,998 | 4,864 | -134 | -2.68% |
| 18 | South Yorkshire Police | 14,370 | 13,851 | -519 | -3.61% |
| 19 | Durham Constabulary | 5,770 | 5,512 | -258 | -4.47% |
| 20 | Sussex Police | 12,111 | 11,568 | -543 | -4.48% |
| 21 | Warwickshire Police | 3,958 | 3,780 | -178 | -4.50% |
| 22 | Nottinghamshire Police | 10,148 | 9,533 | -615 | -6.06% |
| 23 | Northamptonshire Police | 6,023 | 5,410 | -613 | -10.18% |
| 24 | North Wales Police | 5,424 | 4,858 | -566 | -10.44% |
| 25 | North Yorkshire Police | 5,351 | 4,641 | -710 | -13.27% |
| 26 | Hertfordshire Constabulary | 8,843 | 7,632 | -1,211 | -13.69% |
| 27 | Wiltshire Police | 4,340 | 3,744 | -596 | -13.73% |
| 28 | Bedfordshire Police | 5,393 | 4,559 | -834 | -15.46% |
| 29 | Norfolk Constabulary | 6,078 | 5,035 | -1,043 | -17.16% |
| 30 | Hampshire Constabulary | 16,092 | 13,133 | -2,959 | -18.39% |
| 31 | Cumbria Constabulary | 4,083 | 3,276 | -807 | -19.76% |
| 32 | Cheshire Constabulary | 7,358 | 5,900 | -1,458 | -19.82% |
| 33 | West Mercia Police | 9,649 | 7,503 | -2,146 | -22.24% |
| 34 | Gwent Police | 6,927 | 5,378 | -1,549 | -22.36% |
| 35 | Thames Valley Police | 19,572 | 15,016 | -4,556 | -23.28% |
| 36 | South Wales Police | 13,923 | 10,322 | -3,601 | -25.86% |
| 37 | Dorset Police | 6,249 | 4,620 | -1,629 | -26.07% |
| 38 | Surrey Police | 9,264 | 6,806 | -2,458 | -26.53% |
| 39 | Suffolk Constabulary | 5,634 | 3,869 | -1,765 | -31.33% |
| 40 | Dyfed-Powys Police | 3,350 | 300 | -3,050 | -91.04% |
| 41 | Derbyshire Constabulary | 8,331 | 0 | -8,331 | -100.00% |
| 42 | Metropolitan Police Service | 92,443 | 0 | -92,443 | -100.00% |
| 43 | Greater Manchester Police | 26,127 | 0 | -26,127 | -100.00% |
The Economic Policy Centre www.economicpolicycentre.com has made every effort in order to ensure that the data for UkCrimeStats is accurate and up to date. However, we are aware of certain deficiencies in this data which are beyond our control. That's because as a 3rd party developer, we do not collect the data, the Police do who then hand it over to another data company to release to 3rd party developers such as ourselves. We only download and analyse it so that you can use it. For full detail of these deficiencies, please read here.