Crime rate in Mole Valley
5,859 offences were recorded across Mole Valley in the twelve months to August 2026 - 66 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 21.7 per 1,000 1,928
- Anti-social behaviour 13.2 per 1,000 1,174
- Public order 6 per 1,000 529
- Shoplifting 5.2 per 1,000 463
- Criminal damage and arson 4.8 per 1,000 430
- Other theft 4.4 per 1,000 388
- Burglary 3.3 per 1,000 292
- Vehicle crime 2.8 per 1,000 249
- Drugs 1.9 per 1,000 166
- Other crime 1.3 per 1,000 118
- Possession of weapons 0.5 per 1,000 42
- Robbery 0.4 per 1,000 32
- Bicycle theft 0.3 per 1,000 30
- Theft from the person 0.2 per 1,000 18
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.