Crime rate in Runnymede
7,811 offences were recorded across Runnymede in the twelve months to August 2026 - 84 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 29.4 per 1,000 2,735
- Anti-social behaviour 13 per 1,000 1,212
- Public order 7.8 per 1,000 729
- Shoplifting 7.6 per 1,000 703
- Other theft 6.4 per 1,000 593
- Criminal damage and arson 5.5 per 1,000 516
- Vehicle crime 3.6 per 1,000 331
- Drugs 3.5 per 1,000 328
- Burglary 2.6 per 1,000 244
- Other crime 2.1 per 1,000 196
- Possession of weapons 1.1 per 1,000 101
- Robbery 0.6 per 1,000 58
- Bicycle theft 0.5 per 1,000 44
- Theft from the person 0.2 per 1,000 21
Towns in Runnymede
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 Runnymede'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 - 93,013 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.