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 Apr 2024)
Rank | Police Forces | Total Dec 2010 | Total Apr 2024 | Difference | Percentage |
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1 | City of London Police | 590 | 926 | 336 | 56.95% |
2 | Staffordshire Police | 7,060 | 9,020 | 1,960 | 27.76% |
3 | West Midlands Police | 22,585 | 28,495 | 5,910 | 26.17% |
4 | Kent Police | 12,580 | 15,727 | 3,147 | 25.02% |
5 | Cleveland Police | 6,346 | 7,921 | 1,575 | 24.82% |
6 | Leicestershire Police | 7,339 | 8,872 | 1,533 | 20.89% |
7 | West Yorkshire Police | 21,292 | 25,585 | 4,293 | 20.16% |
8 | Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 13,368 | 15,863 | 2,495 | 18.66% |
9 | Northumbria Police | 12,455 | 14,550 | 2,095 | 16.82% |
10 | Lincolnshire Police | 4,998 | 5,762 | 764 | 15.29% |
11 | Humberside Police | 7,601 | 8,697 | 1,096 | 14.42% |
12 | Devon & Cornwall Police | 11,009 | 12,447 | 1,438 | 13.06% |
13 | Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 5,926 | 6,690 | 764 | 12.89% |
14 | Gloucestershire Constabulary | 4,602 | 5,151 | 549 | 11.93% |
15 | Sussex Police | 12,111 | 13,530 | 1,419 | 11.72% |
16 | Lancashire Constabulary | 14,113 | 15,693 | 1,580 | 11.20% |
17 | Merseyside Police | 11,315 | 12,559 | 1,244 | 10.99% |
18 | Essex Police | 11,740 | 12,875 | 1,135 | 9.67% |
19 | Warwickshire Police | 3,958 | 4,210 | 252 | 6.37% |
20 | Durham Constabulary | 5,770 | 6,126 | 356 | 6.17% |
21 | Derbyshire Constabulary | 8,331 | 8,809 | 478 | 5.74% |
22 | South Yorkshire Police | 14,370 | 14,953 | 583 | 4.06% |
23 | North Wales Police | 5,424 | 5,489 | 65 | 1.20% |
24 | Northamptonshire Police | 6,023 | 6,018 | -5 | -0.08% |
25 | North Yorkshire Police | 5,351 | 5,269 | -82 | -1.53% |
26 | Norfolk Constabulary | 6,078 | 5,875 | -203 | -3.34% |
27 | Bedfordshire Police | 5,393 | 5,159 | -234 | -4.34% |
28 | Wiltshire Police | 4,340 | 4,085 | -255 | -5.88% |
29 | Metropolitan Police Service | 92,443 | 85,476 | -6,967 | -7.54% |
30 | Hertfordshire Constabulary | 8,843 | 8,108 | -735 | -8.31% |
31 | Cheshire Constabulary | 7,358 | 6,606 | -752 | -10.22% |
32 | Gwent Police | 6,927 | 6,118 | -809 | -11.68% |
33 | West Mercia Police | 9,649 | 8,388 | -1,261 | -13.07% |
34 | Hampshire Constabulary | 16,092 | 13,445 | -2,647 | -16.45% |
35 | Thames Valley Police | 19,572 | 16,194 | -3,378 | -17.26% |
36 | Dorset Police | 6,249 | 5,150 | -1,099 | -17.59% |
37 | South Wales Police | 13,923 | 11,125 | -2,798 | -20.10% |
38 | Cumbria Constabulary | 4,083 | 3,245 | -838 | -20.52% |
39 | Surrey Police | 9,264 | 7,285 | -1,979 | -21.36% |
40 | Suffolk Constabulary | 5,634 | 4,227 | -1,407 | -24.97% |
41 | Dyfed-Powys Police | 3,350 | 283 | -3,067 | -91.55% |
42 | Greater Manchester Police | 26,127 | 0 | -26,127 | -100.00% |
43 | Nottinghamshire Police | 10,148 | 0 | -10,148 | -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.