Crime rate in Surrey Heath
5,855 offences were recorded across Surrey Heath in the twelve months to August 2026 - 61.6 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 20.9 per 1,000 1,983
- Anti-social behaviour 11.2 per 1,000 1,061
- Public order 5.2 per 1,000 495
- Other theft 5.1 per 1,000 489
- Criminal damage and arson 4.8 per 1,000 460
- Shoplifting 4.7 per 1,000 443
- Other crime 3.2 per 1,000 309
- Vehicle crime 2.1 per 1,000 199
- Burglary 1.6 per 1,000 150
- Drugs 1.4 per 1,000 134
- Possession of weapons 0.5 per 1,000 49
- Robbery 0.3 per 1,000 31
- Bicycle theft 0.3 per 1,000 30
- Theft from the person 0.2 per 1,000 22
Towns in Surrey Heath
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 Surrey Heath'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 - 95,094 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.
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