Crime rate in Woking
7,857 offences were recorded across Woking in the twelve months to June 2026 - 74 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 27.2 per 1,000 2,891
- Anti-social behaviour 11.9 per 1,000 1,266
- Shoplifting 6.8 per 1,000 719
- Public order 6.7 per 1,000 711
- Other theft 5.4 per 1,000 569
- Criminal damage and arson 5.3 per 1,000 563
- Vehicle crime 2.3 per 1,000 249
- Burglary 2.1 per 1,000 223
- Drugs 1.8 per 1,000 192
- Other crime 1.5 per 1,000 163
- Bicycle theft 0.9 per 1,000 97
- Possession of weapons 0.9 per 1,000 91
- Robbery 0.7 per 1,000 78
- Theft from the person 0.4 per 1,000 45
Towns in Woking
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 Woking'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 - 106,197 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.