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Crime rate per 1,000 population in selected police force areas in England and Wales with large cities from 2015/16 to 2025/26

Characteristic	Metropolitan & City of London Police (London)	West Midlands Police (Birmingham)	Greater Manchester Police (Manchester)*	West Yorkshire Police (Leeds/Bradford)	Merseyside Police (Liverpool)	Northumbria Police (Newcastle/Sunderland)	South Yorkshire Police (Sheffield)
2015/16	87.1	66	82.5	89.7	73.7	65.5	74.8
2016/17	89.3	72.8	96.1	104.8	78.8	86.4	88.4
2017/18	93.6	81.3	122.3	115.7	88.9	106	102.4
2018/19	98	89.6	119.2	128.4	95.3	111	104
2019/20	102.4	89.4	98.2	124.2	96.7	99.9	104.6
2020/21	83.3	92.2	97.3	107.2	90.2	86.4	92.7
2021/22	92.8	123	124.3	125.5	115.6	92	105
2022/23	100.9	125.9	129.7	133.8	119	98.7	116.7
2023/24	105.8	111.1	117.7	121.7	100.8	98.5	111.1
2024/25	105.5	103.7	108.2	114.5	92.7	93.5	106.3
2025/26	101.8	82.2	103.7	107.9	93.5	90.3	101.6

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Release date

July 2026

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United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

April 1, 2015 to March 31, 2026

Supplementary notes

*Greater Manchester data for 2019/20 is for the year ending June 2020 due to reporting issues in that year.

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In the 2025/26 reporting year, West Yorkshire Police reported a crime rate of 107.9crimes per 1,000 population, the highest crime rate among the provided police force areas whose territories include large cities. Greater Manchester Police reported a crime rate of 103.7 crimes per 1,000 population and had the second-highest crime rate during this year.