EnergyANALYSIS: 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 May 2021)
| Rank | Police Forces | Total Dec 2010 | Total May 2021 | Difference | Percentage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Essex Police | 11,740 | 18,207 | 6,467 | 55.09% |
| 2 | Kent Police | 12,580 | 18,338 | 5,758 | 45.77% |
| 3 | Merseyside Police | 11,315 | 15,516 | 4,201 | 37.13% |
| 4 | Lancashire Constabulary | 14,113 | 19,140 | 5,027 | 35.62% |
| 5 | Northumbria Police | 12,455 | 16,828 | 4,373 | 35.11% |
| 6 | Dyfed-Powys Police | 3,350 | 4,364 | 1,014 | 30.27% |
| 7 | West Yorkshire Police | 21,292 | 27,377 | 6,085 | 28.58% |
| 8 | Derbyshire Constabulary | 8,331 | 10,669 | 2,338 | 28.06% |
| 9 | Cleveland Police | 6,346 | 8,038 | 1,692 | 26.66% |
| 10 | Gloucestershire Constabulary | 4,602 | 5,694 | 1,092 | 23.73% |
| 11 | Lincolnshire Police | 4,998 | 6,119 | 1,121 | 22.43% |
| 12 | North Wales Police | 5,424 | 6,470 | 1,046 | 19.28% |
| 13 | Durham Constabulary | 5,770 | 6,849 | 1,079 | 18.70% |
| 14 | Cambridgeshire Constabulary | 5,926 | 6,930 | 1,004 | 16.94% |
| 15 | Norfolk Constabulary | 6,078 | 7,070 | 992 | 16.32% |
| 16 | Cheshire Constabulary | 7,358 | 8,426 | 1,068 | 14.51% |
| 17 | Leicestershire Police | 7,339 | 8,370 | 1,031 | 14.05% |
| 18 | Nottinghamshire Police | 10,148 | 11,563 | 1,415 | 13.94% |
| 19 | Humberside Police | 7,601 | 8,645 | 1,044 | 13.74% |
| 20 | North Yorkshire Police | 5,351 | 6,059 | 708 | 13.23% |
| 21 | Wiltshire Police | 4,340 | 4,839 | 499 | 11.50% |
| 22 | Staffordshire Police | 7,060 | 7,849 | 789 | 11.18% |
| 23 | Northamptonshire Police | 6,023 | 6,685 | 662 | 10.99% |
| 24 | Sussex Police | 12,111 | 13,431 | 1,320 | 10.90% |
| 25 | Warwickshire Police | 3,958 | 4,388 | 430 | 10.86% |
| 26 | Hampshire Constabulary | 16,092 | 16,937 | 845 | 5.25% |
| 27 | Avon and Somerset Constabulary | 13,368 | 14,046 | 678 | 5.07% |
| 28 | Devon & Cornwall Police | 11,009 | 11,353 | 344 | 3.12% |
| 29 | Dorset Police | 6,249 | 6,368 | 119 | 1.90% |
| 30 | South Yorkshire Police | 14,370 | 14,475 | 105 | 0.73% |
| 31 | Metropolitan Police Service | 92,443 | 92,225 | -218 | -0.24% |
| 32 | Bedfordshire Police | 5,393 | 5,379 | -14 | -0.26% |
| 33 | Hertfordshire Constabulary | 8,843 | 8,815 | -28 | -0.32% |
| 34 | Thames Valley Police | 19,572 | 18,106 | -1,466 | -7.49% |
| 35 | Suffolk Constabulary | 5,634 | 5,189 | -445 | -7.90% |
| 36 | Cumbria Constabulary | 4,083 | 3,759 | -324 | -7.94% |
| 37 | Surrey Police | 9,264 | 8,161 | -1,103 | -11.91% |
| 38 | South Wales Police | 13,923 | 12,227 | -1,696 | -12.18% |
| 39 | West Mercia Police | 9,649 | 7,033 | -2,616 | -27.11% |
| 40 | Gwent Police | 6,927 | 5,031 | -1,896 | -27.37% |
| 41 | City of London Police | 590 | 428 | -162 | -27.46% |
| 42 | Greater Manchester Police | 26,127 | 0 | -26,127 | -100.00% |
| 43 | West Midlands Police | 22,585 | 0 | -22,585 | -100.00% |
| 44 | Police Service of Northern Ireland | 0 | 14,689 | 14,689 | 0 (N/A) |
0(N/A) Data may not have been reported by this Police force
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.