Crime rate in Guildford
12,501 offences were recorded across Guildford in the twelve months to June 2026 - 82.2 per 1,000 residents, against a Surrey average of 70.
Twelve-month trend
Offences recorded each month, Jul 2025 to June 2026.
By offence type
- Violence and sexual offences 29.4 per 1,000 4,471
- Anti-social behaviour 12.7 per 1,000 1,934
- Public order 7.7 per 1,000 1,178
- Shoplifting 7.7 per 1,000 1,176
- Criminal damage and arson 6.7 per 1,000 1,014
- Other theft 5.6 per 1,000 845
- Vehicle crime 3.3 per 1,000 498
- Drugs 2.4 per 1,000 372
- Burglary 2.3 per 1,000 350
- Other crime 1.9 per 1,000 289
- Bicycle theft 0.8 per 1,000 123
- Possession of weapons 0.6 per 1,000 90
- Robbery 0.6 per 1,000 90
- Theft from the person 0.5 per 1,000 71
Towns in Guildford
Town figures count offences near a town centre rather than across a boundary, so they are not rates and cannot be compared with these.
- Guildford
- Ash Vale
- East Horsley
- Effingham
- Pirbright
- Puttenham
- Shackleford
- Shalford
- Tongham
- West Horsley
- Worplesdon
How this is worked out
Offences are counted inside Guildford'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 - 152,148 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.