Crime rate in Mole Valley
5,836 offences were recorded across Mole Valley in the twelve months to June 2026 - 65.7 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 22.1 per 1,000 1,963
- Anti-social behaviour 12.6 per 1,000 1,117
- Public order 6.1 per 1,000 546
- Shoplifting 4.9 per 1,000 437
- Criminal damage and arson 4.9 per 1,000 436
- Other theft 4.3 per 1,000 383
- Burglary 3.4 per 1,000 306
- Vehicle crime 2.7 per 1,000 240
- Drugs 1.8 per 1,000 164
- Other crime 1.3 per 1,000 119
- Possession of weapons 0.5 per 1,000 44
- Robbery 0.4 per 1,000 33
- Bicycle theft 0.3 per 1,000 31
- Theft from the person 0.2 per 1,000 17
Towns in Mole Valley
Town figures count offences near a town centre rather than across a boundary, so they are not rates and cannot be compared with these.
- Dorking
- Leatherhead
- Ashtead
- Beare Green
- Betchworth
- Brockham
- Charlwood
- Fetcham
- Great Bookham
- Mickleham
- Newdigate
- Ockley
How this is worked out
Offences are counted inside Mole Valley'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 - 88,808 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.