Crime rate in Elmbridge
8,467 offences were recorded across Elmbridge in the twelve months to August 2026 - 59.4 per 1,000 residents, against a Surrey average of 70.
Twelve-month trend
Offences recorded each month, Sept 2025 to August 2026.
By offence type
- Violence and sexual offences 21.6 per 1,000 3,083
- Anti-social behaviour 8.6 per 1,000 1,228
- Public order 5.3 per 1,000 751
- Criminal damage and arson 4.5 per 1,000 636
- Other theft 4.2 per 1,000 602
- Vehicle crime 3.7 per 1,000 534
- Shoplifting 3.6 per 1,000 511
- Burglary 2.2 per 1,000 309
- Drugs 2.2 per 1,000 309
- Other crime 1.3 per 1,000 191
- Bicycle theft 0.7 per 1,000 99
- Possession of weapons 0.6 per 1,000 85
- Robbery 0.5 per 1,000 74
- Theft from the person 0.4 per 1,000 55
Towns in Elmbridge
Town figures count offences near a town centre rather than across a boundary, so they are not rates and cannot be compared with these.
How this is worked out
Offences are counted inside Elmbridge's actual boundary, published by the ONS, rather than within a radius of a town centre. That matters, because it means the number can be divided by the population of exactly the same area - 142,484 residents - to give a rate that is comparable with other boroughs.
Rates are per 1,000 residents over twelve months, the convention the Home Office and ONS use. Recorded crime is not the same as crime committed: changes in reporting and in police recording practice move these figures as well as changes in offending.
Crime data from data.police.uk, boundaries from the ONS Open Geography Portal, population from ONS mid-year estimates via Nomis. All licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.