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Recorded crime: West Midlands Police 12 months to June 2026
105.4recorded offences per 1,000 residents
Police recorded 319,031 offences in the West Midlands Police area in the 12 months to June 2026, down 4.3% (14,276) on the previous 12 months. That is 105.4 per 1,000 residents against 97.4 for England and Wales.
Home Office · data.police.uk street-level crime archive force population: ONS mid-2025 estimate, 3,027,190 Since 2011 Recorded offences per 1,000 residents: Year to June 2012 to Year to June 2026 Coalition Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour Labour 0 50 100 2015 2020 2025 Year to June 2012: 100.7 per 1,000 residents · 277,916 offences · population mid-2012 Year to June 2013: 89.5 per 1,000 residents · 249,074 offences · population mid-2013 Year to June 2014: 87.8 per 1,000 residents · 246,260 offences · population mid-2014 Year to June 2015: 86.1 per 1,000 residents · 243,763 offences · population mid-2015 Year to June 2016: 86.8 per 1,000 residents · 248,637 offences · population mid-2016 Year to June 2017: 94.7 per 1,000 residents · 273,681 offences · population mid-2017 Year to June 2018: 99.7 per 1,000 residents · 289,841 offences · population mid-2018 Year to June 2019: 103.4 per 1,000 residents · 302,141 offences · population mid-2019 Year to June 2020: 101.2 per 1,000 residents · 295,742 offences · population mid-2020 Year to June 2021: 123 per 1,000 residents · 359,078 offences · population mid-2021 Year to June 2022: 132.6 per 1,000 residents · 391,221 offences · population mid-2022 Year to June 2023: 126.8 per 1,000 residents · 379,484 offences · population mid-2023 Year to June 2024: 115.4 per 1,000 residents · 349,740 offences · population mid-2024 Year to June 2025: 110.1 per 1,000 residents · 333,307 offences · population mid-2025 Year to June 2026: 105.4 per 1,000 residents · 319,031 offences · population mid-2025
Each year to June, complete years only. Areas are today's boundaries throughout. Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value Monthly trend Monthly recorded crime: December 2010 to June 2026 Coalition Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour Labour 0 10k 20k 30k 2010 2015 2020 2025 December 2010: 22,838 offences January 2011: 25,515 offences February 2011: 25,558 offences March 2011: 28,958 offences April 2011: 31,273 offences May 2011: 30,000 offences June 2011: 29,037 offences July 2011: 29,893 offences August 2011: 28,573 offences September 2011: 24,013 offences October 2011: 24,289 offences November 2011: 22,605 offences December 2011: 20,732 offences January 2012: 20,904 offences February 2012: 20,824 offences March 2012: 22,930 offences April 2012: 20,534 offences May 2012: 22,101 offences June 2012: 20,518 offences July 2012: 22,703 offences August 2012: 22,859 offences September 2012: 20,829 offences October 2012: 21,354 offences November 2012: 20,342 offences December 2012: 19,100 offences January 2013: 20,461 offences February 2013: 18,505 offences March 2013: 19,807 offences April 2013: 20,479 offences May 2013: 21,299 offences June 2013: 21,336 offences July 2013: 24,096 offences August 2013: 22,931 offences September 2013: 20,325 offences October 2013: 20,648 offences November 2013: 19,703 offences December 2013: 18,980 offences January 2014: 18,631 offences February 2014: 17,639 offences March 2014: 20,711 offences April 2014: 20,163 offences May 2014: 20,657 offences June 2014: 21,776 offences July 2014: 22,892 offences August 2014: 21,279 offences September 2014: 21,437 offences October 2014: 21,095 offences November 2014: 20,232 offences December 2014: 18,447 offences January 2015: 19,095 offences February 2015: 17,813 offences March 2015: 19,714 offences April 2015: 19,820 offences May 2015: 20,521 offences June 2015: 21,418 offences July 2015: 21,754 offences August 2015: 20,561 offences September 2015: 20,248 offences October 2015: 21,384 offences November 2015: 20,443 offences December 2015: 19,782 offences January 2016: 19,871 offences February 2016: 19,403 offences March 2016: 20,892 offences April 2016: 20,316 offences May 2016: 22,169 offences June 2016: 21,814 offences July 2016: 23,221 offences August 2016: 22,710 offences September 2016: 22,379 offences October 2016: 23,893 offences November 2016: 21,890 offences December 2016: 21,302 offences January 2017: 21,416 offences February 2017: 20,407 offences March 2017: 23,564 offences April 2017: 23,114 offences May 2017: 25,241 offences June 2017: 24,544 offences July 2017: 25,484 offences August 2017: 24,971 offences September 2017: 23,208 offences October 2017: 25,879 offences November 2017: 24,989 offences December 2017: 22,080 offences January 2018: 24,094 offences February 2018: 21,691 offences March 2018: 23,088 offences April 2018: 23,627 offences May 2018: 25,132 offences June 2018: 25,598 offences July 2018: 26,940 offences August 2018: 24,851 offences September 2018: 24,548 offences October 2018: 27,159 offences November 2018: 25,938 offences December 2018: 24,322 offences January 2019: 25,260 offences February 2019: 23,272 offences March 2019: 26,016 offences April 2019: 24,370 offences May 2019: 24,808 offences June 2019: 24,657 offences July 2019: 26,535 offences August 2019: 24,580 offences September 2019: 23,518 offences October 2019: 25,115 offences November 2019: 23,931 offences December 2019: 24,110 offences January 2020: 25,643 offences February 2020: 23,382 offences March 2020: 23,400 offences April 2020: 23,752 offences May 2020: 26,210 offences June 2020: 25,566 offences July 2020: 27,750 offences August 2020: 28,451 offences September 2020: 28,175 offences October 2020: 29,910 offences November 2020: 30,608 offences December 2020: 29,950 offences January 2021: 29,117 offences February 2021: 27,575 offences March 2021: 32,115 offences April 2021: 29,969 offences May 2021: 31,923 offences June 2021: 33,535 offences July 2021: 34,608 offences August 2021: 32,095 offences September 2021: 32,594 offences October 2021: 32,990 offences November 2021: 33,771 offences December 2021: 32,204 offences January 2022: 31,283 offences February 2022: 29,797 offences March 2022: 32,597 offences April 2022: 31,843 offences May 2022: 34,105 offences June 2022: 33,334 offences July 2022: 34,582 offences August 2022: 33,675 offences September 2022: 31,697 offences October 2022: 32,958 offences November 2022: 30,964 offences December 2022: 29,343 offences January 2023: 30,937 offences February 2023: 29,477 offences March 2023: 32,452 offences April 2023: 31,289 offences May 2023: 30,589 offences June 2023: 31,521 offences July 2023: 31,601 offences August 2023: 29,958 offences September 2023: 29,671 offences October 2023: 30,836 offences November 2023: 28,269 offences December 2023: 28,058 offences January 2024: 27,500 offences February 2024: 26,067 offences March 2024: 28,383 offences April 2024: 28,495 offences May 2024: 31,037 offences June 2024: 29,865 offences July 2024: 31,636 offences August 2024: 29,180 offences September 2024: 28,635 offences October 2024: 29,074 offences November 2024: 26,571 offences December 2024: 25,723 offences January 2025: 25,601 offences February 2025: 24,624 offences March 2025: 27,967 offences April 2025: 27,296 offences May 2025: 28,292 offences June 2025: 28,708 offences July 2025: 29,191 offences August 2025: 27,312 offences September 2025: 26,066 offences October 2025: 27,012 offences November 2025: 25,815 offences December 2025: 24,353 offences January 2026: 24,341 offences February 2026: 23,783 offences March 2026: 27,190 offences April 2026: 26,616 offences May 2026: 28,598 offences June 2026: 28,754 offences
Monthly recorded offences, all categories except anti-social behaviour Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value Official figures for this area Published in the official force-area tables. These are the figures to cite; archive-based numbers above are built from street-level records and may differ.
Series Latest A year earlier Published Arrests for notifiable offences Year ending March 2025 · arrests 5,945 — 2026-08-19 Homicides (Homicide Index) Year ending March 2025 · offences 34 44 Year ending March 2025 Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument Year ending March 2026 · offences 3,790 4,444 Year ending March 2026 Police officers (full-time equivalent) Year ending March 2026 · officers (FTE) 8,174 7,991 As at 31 March 2026 Police officers per 100,000 population Year ending March 2026 · officers per 100,000 population 269 — As at 31 March 2026 Criminal damage and arson (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 24,981 25,004 Year ending March 2026 Drug offences (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 9,476 8,265 Year ending March 2026 Possession of weapons (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 6,714 6,166 Year ending March 2026 Public order offences (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 17,800 18,837 Year ending March 2026 Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) Year ending March 2026 · offences per 1,000 population 99.1 — Year ending March 2026 Robbery (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 6,706 6,806 Year ending March 2026 Sexual offences (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 12,069 11,608 Year ending March 2026 Theft offences (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 96,692 103,402 Year ending March 2026 Police-recorded crime (excluding fraud) Year ending March 2026 · offences 301,020 308,494 Year ending March 2026 Violence against the person (police-recorded) Year ending March 2026 · offences 120,341 122,445 Year ending March 2026
Homicides by police force area: Year ending March 2015 to Year ending March 2025 Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour 0 20 40 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 Year ending March 2015: 24 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2016: 30 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2017: 38 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2018: 43 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2019: 48 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2020: 49 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2021: 41 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2022: 50 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2023: 36 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2024: 44 offences · published 5 February 2026 Year ending March 2025: 34 offences · published 5 February 2026
Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value Offences involving a knife or sharp instrument by police force area: Year ending March 2011 to Year ending March 2026 Coalition Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour Labour 0 2k 4k 2015 2020 2025 Year ending March 2011: 4,369 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2012: 3,250 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2013: 2,183 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2014: 2,402 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2015: 2,255 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2016: 2,956 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2017: 3,457 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2018: 4,116 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2019: 4,951 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2020: 5,023 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2021: 3,049 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2022: 4,457 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2023: 5,192 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2024: 5,277 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2025: 4,444 offences · published 23 July 2026 Year ending March 2026: 3,790 offences · published 23 July 2026
Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value Police officers by police force area: Year ending March 2007 to Year ending March 2026 Labour Labour Coalition Coalition Conservative Conservative Conservative Conservative Labour Labour 0 3k 5k 8k 2010 2015 2020 2025 Year ending March 2007: 8,245 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2008: 8,412 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2009: 8,637 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2010: 8,626 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2011: 8,149 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2012: 7,826 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2013: 7,615 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2014: 7,288 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2015: 7,133 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2016: 6,944 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2017: 6,756 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2018: 6,581 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2019: 6,495 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2020: 6,516 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2021: 7,186 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2022: 7,579 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2023: 7,954 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2024: 8,000 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2025: 7,991 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026 Year ending March 2026: 8,174 officers (FTE) · published 22 July 2026
Earlier years are the publisher's own back run, joined where the periods do not overlap. Shaded bands: governments (see labels) Hover or use arrow keys to read a value By category, 12 months to June 2026 Category Offences Previous 12 months Change Per 1,000 England & Wales per 1,000 Violence and sexual offences 134,030 131,349 ▲ 2.0% 44.3 34.7 Shoplifting 31,977 33,479 ▼ 4.5% 10.6 8.3 Vehicle crime 27,262 27,953 ▼ 2.5% 9.0 5.0 Criminal damage and arson 25,638 24,732 ▲ 3.7% 8.5 6.9 Other theft 19,351 20,141 ▼ 3.9% 6.4 6.5 Public order 18,674 17,942 ▲ 4.1% 6.2 6.8 Burglary 14,195 15,411 ▼ 7.9% 4.7 3.6 Anti-social behaviour (not a crime) 13,964 29,221 ▼ 52.2% 4.6 15.3 Drugs 9,773 8,702 ▲ 12.3% 3.2 3.4 Possession of weapons 6,948 6,418 ▲ 8.3% 2.3 1.0 Robbery 6,525 6,621 ▼ 1.4% 2.2 1.4 Other crime 6,110 6,755 ▼ 9.5% 2.0 2.2 Theft from the person 2,830 2,633 ▲ 7.5% 0.9 1.7 Bicycle theft 1,754 1,950 ▼ 10.1% 0.6 0.8 Violent crime 0 0 — 0.0 0.0 Public disorder and weapons 0 0 — 0.0 0.0
Local authorities in this force area Birmingham 145,894 offences 124.0per 1,000 Coventry 35,294 offences 96.8per 1,000 Dudley 26,355 offences 78.9per 1,000 Sandwell 35,906 offences 101.7per 1,000 Solihull 19,127 offences 86.4per 1,000 Walsall 30,017 offences 101.5per 1,000 Wolverhampton 27,611 offences 98.1per 1,000 Important caveat Police-recorded crime counts offences reported to and recorded by the police. It is affected by whether people report crime and by changes in police recording practice, so it does not measure all crime that happens. The Crime Survey for England and Wales is the better guide to long-term trends in the crimes it covers. Police recorded crime is not designated as National Statistics.
A higher recorded-crime rate does not mean an area is more dangerous. Rates depend on how much crime is reported and recorded, on the number of visitors and commuters who are not counted in the resident population, and on the policing priorities of the force. Anti-social behaviour incidents are shown separately because they are not recorded crimes.
Source Data data.police.uk street-level crime archive (Home Office). Offences are placed at anonymised snap points and assigned to 2021 Lower Layer Super Output Areas, which are mapped to local authorities using the ONS Open Geography lookup.Population ONS mid-year population estimates for England and Wales, mid-2025 edition, local authority level; force populations are the sum of their local authorities. Geography E23000014 Rate offences in the 12 months ÷ resident population × 1,000, rounded to one decimal place. Method Methodology