UK crime reports
Use the report that matches the question: National murder evidence, local crime rankings, postcode records, public-protection figures or reviewed incident reporting. Coverage includes serious violence, terrorism, gun crime and knife crime without mixing unlike datasets.
Four ways into the evidence
Each route keeps its own unit, period and geographic coverage attached.
Murder statistics
The national trend, victim profile, methods, relationships and locations from the official homicide series.
Year ending March 2026 · England and WalesOpen the report →Crime rankings
Compare published offence groups across consistent local-authority boundaries by record count or population rate.
14 published offence groupsCompare areas →Postcode reports
Open annual totals, monthly patterns, offence groups and the underlying anonymised records for an outward postcode district.
Includes the current Top 30 district rankingFind a district →MAPPA statistics
Area-level public-protection statistics, national trends, category definitions and guidance on what the figures do not identify.
2024–25 · England and WalesOpen MAPPA evidence →Current report directory
Choose by the unit being measured, not by the most dramatic number.
| Report | What it counts | Current reference period | Coverage | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Murder statistics | Recorded homicide offences and Homicide Index victims | Year ending March 2026 | England and Wales | View → |
| Crime rankings | Published street records and rates per 1,000 residents | Completed annual periods | England and Wales local authorities | View → |
| Crime by postcode | Records assigned to outward postcode districts | Latest source month 2024-03 | Published territorial-force coverage | View → |
| Police-force data | Force files, coverage and separately defined disclosures | 2024-03 | England and Wales, with missing forces identified | View → |
| Crime and demographics | Arrests, court outcomes, custody and returns | Source-specific periods | England and Wales | View → |
| MAPPA statistics | Managed people by MAPPA category and area | 2024–25 | 42 reporting areas | View → |
Counts from different rows cannot be combined. Each report uses a different event, population, period or geographic boundary.
What are you trying to establish?
Which areas record the most of a published offence?
Use local-authority rankings and choose count or rate. Greater Manchester is visibly excluded because its source data is unavailable.
Open area rankings →What happened in one postcode district?
Use a district report for annual totals, monthly change and offence mix. It is an area report, not an address history.
Search a postcode district →What does the law call a specific offence?
Use the legal guides for definitions, prosecution elements, sentencing context and direct official legislation links.
Open UK law guides →Reviewed incident reports
Incident reports appear only after their source match, legal context and public-interest value pass editorial review.
No incident report has passed review yet
The page remains useful through the statistical reports above. Incident stories are not auto-published from a feed: They require reliable primary sources, a defensible map link and enough context to add more than a headline.