Leicester crime statistics and crime mapSee what Leicestershire Police actually recorded near you
Pick a town or search your postcode to map recent police-recorded crime by type and area across Leicester and Leicestershire. It is the same open data police.uk publishes, updated every month, mapped so you can read the pattern for your own street.
Leicester crime statistics at a glance
Updated for May 2026
According to data.police.uk, Leicestershire Police recorded 1,578 crimes within about a mile of Leicester city centre in May 2026. The most common was violence and sexual offences at 32%, followed by anti-social behaviour and public order.
Leicester crime by type (May 2026)
| Crime type | Recorded | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 500 | 32% |
| Anti-social behaviour | 202 | 13% |
| Public order | 189 | 12% |
| Shoplifting | 174 | 11% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 143 | 9% |
| Other theft | 112 | 7% |
| Drugs | 65 | 4% |
| Vehicle crime | 61 | 4% |
| Burglary | 36 | 2% |
| Theft from the person | 23 | 1% |
| Robbery | 20 | 1% |
| Possession of weapons | 19 | 1% |
| Other crime | 19 | 1% |
| Bicycle theft | 15 | 1% |
Recorded crime across Leicestershire (May 2026)
| Area | Recorded crimes |
|---|---|
| Leicester city centre | 1,578 |
| Loughborough | 462 |
| Hinckley | 253 |
| Melton Mowbray | 201 |
| Coalville | 171 |
| Market Harborough | 130 |
| Wigston | 104 |
| Oadby | 101 |
Crimes within about a mile of each town centre.
What is the crime rate in Leicester?
"Crime rate" usually means recorded crimes per 1,000 residents over a year, published by the ONS and police forces. For a live local read, the figures on this page are the monthly recorded-crime counts data.police.uk publishes by area, so you can see what is actually happening now rather than a year-old average. Search your postcode above to see the counts for your own street.
Each point is a crime snapped to a nearby anonymous location, not an exact address. The ring marks the roughly one-mile search area. Zoom with the map controls; scroll-zoom is off so the page still scrolls.
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What the map tells you about protecting your property with CCTV
We survey and fit CCTV systems across Leicestershire, so we read this map differently to a league table. Two things matter more than the headline count: which types of crime show up around you, and how often they close with nobody identified. That second number is the honest case for a CCTV camera that actually captures usable footage rather than a blurry shape at the end of a driveway.
- Vehicle crime and bike theft cluster on through-roads and off-street parking. A camera covering the drive and the approach, positioned to read a face and a number plate rather than just a shape, is what turns one of these into a solvable case.
- Burglary tends to follow the path of least resistance: rear access, side gates, anything not overlooked. Coverage on the weak entry points matters far more than a single camera pointed at the front door.
- Anti-social behaviour and criminal damage respond to a visible deterrent. A CCTV camera that is obviously there, at head height, on the elevation people actually pass, does more than a discreet one tucked under the eaves.
If the pattern near you leans one way, the design should follow it. That is the whole point of a site survey: we map your blind spots against how crime actually moves around your property, then quote one fixed price for the job. Have a look at home CCTV installation or business CCTV if you want to see how that comes together.
Crime data from data.police.uk. Postcode lookup by postcodes.io. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Street-level crime locations are approximate by design and data is published monthly, roughly two months in arrears. Figures update automatically as the police release each new month.
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