England and Wales · local-authority comparisonRobbery Rates by Local Authority
Compare the published robbery group by count and resident rate without mixing it with burglary or general theft.
What is counted?
Robbery involves theft with force or a threat of force. The street-level category is broader than a court outcome and does not prove which statutory charge was brought.
What can shape this particular ranking?
Robbery is distinct from theft because force or a threat of force is involved, but this dataset does not publish the charging file. Small counts can also make annual rates and ranks move sharply. Check the raw number, examine several periods and use the map only for broad spatial context because its points are deliberately anonymised.
The ranking is being refreshed
This evidence page waits for complete authority totals and denominators rather than publishing a partial table.
Three checks before comparing
Use the same measure
Count describes published volume. Rate adjusts for resident population. Neither is a personal risk score.
Keep the source period fixed
Every row above uses the same completed 12-month window. Do not compare it with a monthly map total.
Check what is missing
Unreported incidents are absent. Greater Manchester is removed, not ranked at zero, because its force does not supply this dataset.
How this robbery table is calculated
1. Fix the geography
Complete official LSOAs are assigned to their named local authority. Informal city labels and postcode shapes are not mixed into the table.
2. Count one category
Only records published in the Robbery group are counted. Other theft or violence groups do not enter this numerator.
3. Attach one denominator
The resident rate equals published records divided by the matched ONS population estimate, multiplied by 1,000. Counts remain visible because visitors and commuters are not residents.
4. Remove incomplete coverage
All ten Greater Manchester authorities are excluded before ranking because their force has not supplied this dataset since July 2019. They are not assigned a zero.
What this ranking cannot answer
- It cannot count incidents that were never reported or recorded.
- It cannot identify a victim, suspect, defendant or conviction.
- It cannot turn an anonymised map coordinate into an exact address.
- It cannot predict an individual's future risk in either authority.
Use the figures as a reproducible area comparison, then check local land use, transport, retail activity, visitor footfall and recording practice before explaining a difference.