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 Jan 2024)
Rank | Police Forces | Total Dec 2010 | Total Jan 2024 | Difference | Percentage |
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1 | City of London Police | 590 | 734 | 144 | 24.41% |
2 | West Midlands Police | 22,585 | 27,485 | 4,900 | 21.70% |
3 | Staffordshire Police | 7,060 | 8,515 | 1,455 | 20.61% |
4 | Kent Police | 12,580 | 14,466 | 1,886 | 14.99% |
5 | Essex Police | 11,740 | 13,148 | 1,408 | 11.99% |
6 | West Yorkshire Police | 21,292 | 23,810 | 2,518 | 11.83% |
7 | Northumbria Police | 12,455 | 13,866 | 1,411 | 11.33% |
8 | Leicestershire Police | 7,339 | 8,092 | 753 | 10.26% |
9 | Gloucestershire Constabulary | 4,602 | 5,000 | 398 | 8.65% |
10 | Lincolnshire Police | 4,998 | 5,400 | 402 | 8.04% |
11 | Merseyside Police | 11,315 | 12,143 | 828 | 7.32% |
12 | Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 13,368 | 14,064 | 696 | 5.21% |
13 | Cleveland Police | 6,346 | 6,561 | 215 | 3.39% |
14 | Sussex Police | 12,111 | 12,306 | 195 | 1.61% |
15 | Humberside Police | 7,601 | 7,718 | 117 | 1.54% |
16 | South Yorkshire Police | 14,370 | 14,451 | 81 | 0.56% |
17 | Durham Constabulary | 5,770 | 5,753 | -17 | -0.29% |
18 | Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 5,926 | 5,906 | -20 | -0.34% |
19 | Lancashire Constabulary | 14,113 | 13,974 | -139 | -0.98% |
20 | Metropolitan Police Service | 92,443 | 91,411 | -1,032 | -1.12% |
21 | Derbyshire Constabulary | 8,331 | 8,216 | -115 | -1.38% |
22 | Warwickshire Police | 3,958 | 3,882 | -76 | -1.92% |
23 | North Wales Police | 5,424 | 5,185 | -239 | -4.41% |
24 | Northamptonshire Police | 6,023 | 5,613 | -410 | -6.81% |
25 | Wiltshire Police | 4,340 | 3,842 | -498 | -11.47% |
26 | Hertfordshire Constabulary | 8,843 | 7,799 | -1,044 | -11.81% |
27 | North Yorkshire Police | 5,351 | 4,644 | -707 | -13.21% |
28 | Bedfordshire Police | 5,393 | 4,655 | -738 | -13.68% |
29 | Norfolk Constabulary | 6,078 | 5,200 | -878 | -14.45% |
30 | Hampshire Constabulary | 16,092 | 13,484 | -2,608 | -16.21% |
31 | Nottinghamshire Police | 10,148 | 8,225 | -1,923 | -18.95% |
32 | Gwent Police | 6,927 | 5,560 | -1,367 | -19.73% |
33 | Thames Valley Police | 19,572 | 15,606 | -3,966 | -20.26% |
34 | Cheshire Constabulary | 7,358 | 5,786 | -1,572 | -21.36% |
35 | West Mercia Police | 9,649 | 7,559 | -2,090 | -21.66% |
36 | South Wales Police | 13,923 | 10,885 | -3,038 | -21.82% |
37 | Surrey Police | 9,264 | 7,143 | -2,121 | -22.90% |
38 | Dorset Police | 6,249 | 4,802 | -1,447 | -23.16% |
39 | Cumbria Constabulary | 4,083 | 2,983 | -1,100 | -26.94% |
40 | Suffolk Constabulary | 5,634 | 3,949 | -1,685 | -29.91% |
41 | Dyfed-Powys Police | 3,350 | 1,187 | -2,163 | -64.57% |
42 | Greater Manchester Police | 26,127 | 0 | -26,127 | -100.00% |
43 | Devon & Cornwall Police | 11,009 | 0 | -11,009 | -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.