Vehicle crime by area

Car crime rate by area in England and Wales

Police in England and Wales recorded an average of 329,557 vehicle offences a year in 2024/25 and 2025/26, against 27,321,054 privately kept licensed cars: a rate of 12.1 per 1,000 cars. The median local authority recorded 7.8, because vehicle crime is concentrated: only 99 of the 316 areas ranked here are above the national rate. Westminster is highest at 97.5 and North Norfolk lowest at 1.3.

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Data to 2026-03-31 · Page updated 2026-09-28 · Publisher: 73 Auto

England & Wales rate: 12.1; offences per 1,000 cars, 2024/25 and 2025/26
Median area: 7.8; of 316 local authorities
London boroughs: 38.2; 5.40× the shire-district rate

Vehicle crime by type of local authority

Official data, grouped by the type in each authority's ONS code. The rate pools every offence and every car in the group; the median is the middle authority.

Vehicle offences per 1,000 privately kept cars by local authority type
Authority type	Areas	Cars	Rate per 1,000	Median area	Highest
London boroughs (E09)	32	2,399,823	38.2	39.2	Westminster
Metropolitan districts (E08)	36	5,017,484	16.7	14.1	Manchester
English unitary authorities (E06)	62	8,045,422	8.7	7.9	Bristol
Shire districts (E07)	164	10,286,504	7.1	6.3	North Warwickshire
Welsh unitary authorities (W06)	22	1,570,059	7.0	4.8	Cardiff

All 316 areas ranked

Rank 1 is the highest rate. Official data; the ratio is the area rate divided by the England and Wales rate.

Local authorities ranked by vehicle offences per 1,000 privately kept cars
Rank	Area	Type	Offences a year	Per 1,000 cars	vs national
1	Westminster	London borough	3,661	97.5	8.08×
2	Camden	London borough	2,661	77.3	6.41×
3	Islington	London borough	2,238	76.0	6.30×
4	Kensington and Chelsea	London borough	2,434	70.6	5.85×
5	Newham	London borough	4,233	67.1	5.57×
6	Tower Hamlets	London borough	2,762	65.0	5.39×
7	Hackney	London borough	2,219	60.3	5.00×
8	Haringey	London borough	3,387	60.1	4.98×
9	Lambeth	London borough	2,979	53.4	4.43×
10	Southwark	London borough	2,578	50.6	4.20×
11	Hammersmith and Fulham	London borough	1,849	49.1	4.07×
12	Waltham Forest	London borough	3,190	45.5	3.77×
13	Lewisham	London borough	2,964	42.2	3.50×
14	Ealing	London borough	4,439	42.1	3.49×
15	Wandsworth	London borough	3,017	41.7	3.45×
16	Brent	London borough	3,260	39.7	3.29×
17	Enfield	London borough	4,232	38.7	3.21×
18	Greenwich	London borough	2,727	38.0	3.15×
19	Barking and Dagenham	London borough	2,259	36.7	3.04×
20	Hounslow	London borough	3,178	35.3	2.93×
21	Redbridge	London borough	3,107	32.1	2.66×
22	Hillingdon	London borough	3,838	32.1	2.66×
23	Barnet	London borough	4,136	31.7	2.63×
24	Manchester	metropolitan district	5,015	30.2	2.50×
25	Birmingham	metropolitan district	12,360	30.1	2.49×
26	Croydon	London borough	3,878	29.8	2.47×
27	Bristol	unitary authority	5,166	28.9	2.39×
28	Bromley	London borough	3,735	27.2	2.26×
29	Richmond upon Thames	London borough	1,820	25.8	2.14×
30	Merton	London borough	1,571	24.4	2.03×
31	Sandwell	metropolitan district	3,189	23.5	1.95×
32	Havering	London borough	2,507	23.4	1.94×
33	Harrow	London borough	2,089	22.9	1.90×
34	Coventry	metropolitan district	3,248	22.6	1.88×
35	Slough	unitary authority	1,462	22.6	1.88×
36	Middlesbrough	unitary authority	1,334	22.2	1.84×
37	Thurrock	unitary authority	1,837	22.2	1.84×
38	Bexley	London borough	2,156	22.0	1.82×
39	Luton	unitary authority	1,924	21.4	1.77×
40	Cardiff	Welsh unitary authority	3,159	21.3	1.77×
41	Walsall	metropolitan district	2,611	21.1	1.75×
42	Wolverhampton	metropolitan district	2,384	21.0	1.74×
43	Leicester	unitary authority	2,655	20.9	1.73×
44	Nottingham	unitary authority	2,052	20.8	1.73×
45	Solihull	metropolitan district	2,277	20.7	1.72×
46	Doncaster	metropolitan district	3,119	20.6	1.71×
47	Leeds	metropolitan district	6,474	20.0	1.66×
48	Southampton	unitary authority	1,901	19.7	1.64×
49	Sheffield	metropolitan district	4,391	19.7	1.64×
50	Newcastle upon Tyne	metropolitan district	1,989	19.7	1.63×
51	Kingston upon Thames	London borough	1,137	18.6	1.54×
52	Bradford	metropolitan district	4,066	18.5	1.53×
53	Sutton	London borough	1,459	18.0	1.49×
54	North Warwickshire	shire district	649	17.7	1.46×
55	Blackpool	unitary authority	956	17.2	1.42×
56	Hyndburn	shire district	615	17.0	1.41×
57	Basildon	shire district	1,510	16.9	1.40×
58	Oldham	metropolitan district	1,622	16.9	1.40×
59	Oxford	shire district	783	16.8	1.40×
60	Salford	metropolitan district	1,638	16.8	1.39×
61	Liverpool	metropolitan district	2,590	16.8	1.39×
62	Epping Forest	shire district	1,141	16.6	1.38×
63	Blackburn with Darwen	unitary authority	1,068	16.6	1.38×
64	Brentwood	shire district	658	16.4	1.36×
65	Watford	shire district	696	16.3	1.35×
66	Cambridge	shire district	640	15.9	1.32×
67	Reading	unitary authority	1,034	15.7	1.30×
68	Rochdale	metropolitan district	1,471	15.4	1.28×
69	Harlow	shire district	667	15.3	1.27×
70	Dudley	metropolitan district	2,398	15.3	1.27×
71	Portsmouth	unitary authority	1,149	14.8	1.23×
72	Burnley	shire district	574	14.7	1.22×
73	Milton Keynes	unitary authority	2,052	14.6	1.21×
74	Peterborough	unitary authority	1,403	14.5	1.20×
75	Barnsley	metropolitan district	1,689	14.3	1.18×
76	Preston	shire district	938	14.3	1.18×
77	Nuneaton and Bedworth	shire district	975	13.9	1.15×
78	Wakefield	metropolitan district	2,353	13.9	1.15×
79	Rotherham	metropolitan district	1,795	13.9	1.15×
80	Blaenau Gwent	Welsh unitary authority	473	13.9	1.15×
81	Cheltenham	shire district	776	13.7	1.13×
82	Hertsmere	shire district	697	13.5	1.12×
83	Southend-on-Sea	unitary authority	1,054	13.2	1.10×
84	Calderdale	metropolitan district	1,225	13.2	1.09×
85	Kingston upon Hull	unitary authority	1,300	13.2	1.09×
86	Gateshead	metropolitan district	1,023	13.0	1.08×
87	Sunderland	metropolitan district	1,510	12.9	1.07×
88	Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	unitary authority	2,506	12.9	1.07×
89	Stoke-on-Trent	unitary authority	1,438	12.8	1.06×
90	Thanet	shire district	840	12.8	1.06×
91	Hastings	shire district	483	12.7	1.05×
92	Bedford	unitary authority	1,193	12.6	1.05×
93	Newport	Welsh unitary authority	954	12.3	1.02×
94	Sevenoaks	shire district	838	12.3	1.02×
95	Brighton and Hove	unitary authority	1,076	12.2	1.02×
96	Tamworth	shire district	486	12.2	1.01×
97	Gravesham	shire district	622	12.1	1.00×
98	Dartford	shire district	668	12.1	1.00×
99	Broxbourne	shire district	602	12.1	1.00×
100	Ipswich	shire district	747	12.0	1.00×
101	Stockton-on-Tees	unitary authority	1,126	12.0	1.00×
102	Epsom and Ewell	shire district	462	12.0	0.99×
103	Canterbury	shire district	877	11.8	0.98×
104	Tameside	metropolitan district	1,147	11.6	0.96×
105	Swale	shire district	904	11.5	0.95×
106	Welwyn Hatfield	shire district	643	11.4	0.95×
107	Bolton	metropolitan district	1,449	11.4	0.94×
108	Hartlepool	unitary authority	472	11.3	0.94×
109	Kirklees	metropolitan district	2,227	11.2	0.93×
110	Dacorum	shire district	919	11.2	0.93×
111	Spelthorne	shire district	589	11.1	0.92×
112	Darlington	unitary authority	570	11.1	0.92×
113	Derby	unitary authority	1,234	11.0	0.91×
114	St Albans	shire district	838	11.0	0.91×
115	North East Lincolnshire	unitary authority	764	10.7	0.88×
116	Lichfield	shire district	650	10.7	0.88×
117	Crawley	shire district	567	10.6	0.88×
118	Dover	shire district	631	10.5	0.87×
119	Bassetlaw	shire district	675	10.4	0.86×
120	Charnwood	shire district	926	10.3	0.85×
121	Windsor and Maidenhead	unitary authority	838	10.1	0.84×
122	Colchester	shire district	956	10.1	0.84×
123	Trafford	metropolitan district	1,080	10.0	0.83×
124	Warwick	shire district	740	9.7	0.80×
125	Stratford-on-Avon	shire district	848	9.7	0.80×
126	West Northamptonshire	unitary authority	2,193	9.6	0.80×
127	Bury	metropolitan district	818	9.5	0.79×
128	Wigan	metropolitan district	1,473	9.3	0.77×
129	North Tyneside	metropolitan district	835	9.3	0.77×
130	Norwich	shire district	479	9.3	0.77×
131	Bath and North East Somerset	unitary authority	826	9.2	0.76×
132	Central Bedfordshire	unitary authority	1,577	9.2	0.76×
133	Caerphilly	Welsh unitary authority	802	9.1	0.76×
134	Eastbourne	shire district	401	9.0	0.75×
135	North West Leicestershire	shire district	552	8.9	0.74×
136	Cannock Chase	shire district	462	8.8	0.73×
137	Lincoln	shire district	335	8.8	0.73×
138	Redcar and Cleveland	unitary authority	575	8.8	0.73×
139	South Tyneside	metropolitan district	525	8.7	0.72×
140	Ashford	shire district	635	8.7	0.72×
141	Blaby	shire district	480	8.5	0.70×
142	Stevenage	shire district	349	8.5	0.70×
143	South Staffordshire	shire district	523	8.4	0.70×
144	Pendle	shire district	355	8.4	0.69×
145	Chelmsford	shire district	793	8.3	0.69×
146	Runnymede	shire district	380	8.3	0.69×
147	Lancaster	shire district	525	8.3	0.69×
148	Gloucester	shire district	532	8.2	0.68×
149	Folkestone and Hythe	shire district	460	8.2	0.68×
150	Mansfield	shire district	440	8.2	0.68×
151	Wyre Forest	shire district	457	8.1	0.67×
152	Bromsgrove	shire district	456	8.1	0.67×
153	Redditch	shire district	361	8.1	0.67×
154	County Durham	unitary authority	1,949	8.0	0.66×
155	Tandridge	shire district	395	7.8	0.65×
156	Plymouth	unitary authority	900	7.8	0.65×
157	Hinckley and Bosworth	shire district	511	7.8	0.65×
158	Tendring	shire district	632	7.8	0.65×
159	Rossendale	shire district	272	7.8	0.65×
160	Three Rivers	shire district	383	7.8	0.64×
161	Stockport	metropolitan district	1,102	7.8	0.64×
162	Elmbridge	shire district	584	7.7	0.64×
163	South Gloucestershire	unitary authority	1,241	7.7	0.64×
164	North Northamptonshire	unitary authority	1,498	7.7	0.64×
165	Buckinghamshire	unitary authority	2,438	7.7	0.64×
166	Arun	shire district	700	7.7	0.64×
167	Chesterfield	shire district	385	7.6	0.63×
168	North Somerset	unitary authority	930	7.5	0.63×
169	East Hertfordshire	shire district	627	7.5	0.62×
170	Swansea	Welsh unitary authority	910	7.4	0.62×
171	North Lincolnshire	unitary authority	660	7.4	0.61×
172	Bolsover	shire district	317	7.4	0.61×
173	Rhondda Cynon Taf	Welsh unitary authority	850	7.4	0.61×
174	Merthyr Tydfil	Welsh unitary authority	198	7.4	0.61×
175	Torfaen	Welsh unitary authority	346	7.4	0.61×
176	Ashfield	shire district	450	7.4	0.61×
177	Worthing	shire district	390	7.3	0.61×
178	Uttlesford	shire district	415	7.3	0.60×
179	St. Helens	metropolitan district	620	7.3	0.60×
180	Guildford	shire district	548	7.2	0.59×
181	Torbay	unitary authority	470	7.2	0.59×
182	Rugby	shire district	451	7.1	0.59×
183	Gosport	shire district	277	7.1	0.58×
184	Reigate and Banstead	shire district	559	7.0	0.58×
185	Swindon	unitary authority	796	6.9	0.58×
186	Fenland	shire district	394	6.9	0.58×
187	Newark and Sherwood	shire district	454	6.8	0.56×
188	Basingstoke and Deane	shire district	677	6.6	0.55×
189	Rushmoor	shire district	339	6.6	0.55×
190	Hart	shire district	411	6.6	0.55×
191	Bracknell Forest	unitary authority	465	6.6	0.55×
192	Vale of Glamorgan	Welsh unitary authority	452	6.5	0.54×
193	Oadby and Wigston	shire district	189	6.4	0.53×
194	Sefton	metropolitan district	780	6.4	0.53×
195	Rutland	unitary authority	145	6.4	0.53×
196	Castle Point	shire district	308	6.4	0.53×
197	South Cambridgeshire	shire district	608	6.3	0.52×
198	South Derbyshire	shire district	409	6.3	0.52×
199	Cherwell	shire district	553	6.3	0.52×
200	Harborough	shire district	368	6.3	0.52×
201	Fylde	shire district	284	6.3	0.52×
202	East Staffordshire	shire district	400	6.1	0.51×
203	Huntingdonshire	shire district	641	6.1	0.51×
204	Exeter	shire district	303	6.1	0.51×
205	Chichester	shire district	439	6.1	0.50×
206	Halton	unitary authority	368	6.1	0.50×
207	Braintree	shire district	537	6.0	0.50×
208	Eastleigh	shire district	466	6.0	0.50×
209	York	unitary authority	497	6.0	0.50×
210	Erewash	shire district	335	6.0	0.50×
211	Great Yarmouth	shire district	284	6.0	0.50×
212	Malvern Hills	shire district	300	5.9	0.49×
213	Worcester	shire district	302	5.9	0.49×
214	Wychavon	shire district	485	5.9	0.49×
215	North Hertfordshire	shire district	419	5.9	0.49×
216	Wyre	shire district	357	5.9	0.49×
217	Chorley	shire district	358	5.9	0.49×
218	Havant	shire district	380	5.8	0.48×
219	Newcastle-under-Lyme	shire district	358	5.8	0.48×
220	Boston	shire district	208	5.8	0.48×
221	South Kesteven	shire district	459	5.7	0.47×
222	Test Valley	shire district	437	5.7	0.47×
223	West Berkshire	unitary authority	526	5.7	0.47×
224	New Forest	shire district	601	5.6	0.47×
225	Knowsley	metropolitan district	349	5.6	0.47×
226	Rochford	shire district	279	5.6	0.47×
227	Winchester	shire district	410	5.6	0.47×
228	Melton	shire district	174	5.6	0.46×
229	Woking	shire district	296	5.4	0.45×
230	South Ribble	shire district	330	5.4	0.45×
231	Adur	shire district	165	5.4	0.44×
232	South Holland	shire district	298	5.3	0.44×
233	Rushcliffe	shire district	342	5.2	0.43×
234	Gedling	shire district	304	5.2	0.43×
235	Broxtowe	shire district	280	5.2	0.43×
236	Northumberland	unitary authority	861	5.2	0.43×
237	East Lindsey	shire district	400	5.1	0.43×
238	Dorset	unitary authority	1,150	5.1	0.42×
239	Amber Valley	shire district	356	5.1	0.42×
240	Medway	unitary authority	679	5.0	0.42×
241	Wirral	metropolitan district	752	5.0	0.42×
242	West Oxfordshire	shire district	333	5.0	0.41×
243	Wrexham	Welsh unitary authority	348	5.0	0.41×
244	Surrey Heath	shire district	268	4.9	0.41×
245	Warrington	unitary authority	542	4.9	0.41×
246	Tonbridge and Malling	shire district	358	4.9	0.40×
247	High Peak	shire district	230	4.9	0.40×
248	Bridgend	Welsh unitary authority	351	4.9	0.40×
249	Stroud	shire district	360	4.9	0.40×
250	Ribble Valley	shire district	172	4.8	0.40×
251	Telford and Wrekin	unitary authority	451	4.8	0.40×
252	Mid Sussex	shire district	418	4.8	0.40×
253	Horsham	shire district	422	4.8	0.40×
254	Cotswold	shire district	261	4.7	0.39×
255	West Lancashire	shire district	281	4.7	0.39×
256	Neath Port Talbot	Welsh unitary authority	319	4.7	0.39×
257	Mole Valley	shire district	243	4.6	0.38×
258	Somerset	unitary authority	1,514	4.6	0.38×
259	North East Derbyshire	shire district	266	4.6	0.38×
260	Maidstone	shire district	445	4.6	0.38×
261	Stafford	shire district	340	4.5	0.38×
262	West Lindsey	shire district	248	4.5	0.37×
263	East Cambridgeshire	shire district	236	4.5	0.37×
264	Tunbridge Wells	shire district	280	4.5	0.37×
265	Rother	shire district	236	4.5	0.37×
266	Monmouthshire	Welsh unitary authority	245	4.4	0.37×
267	South Oxfordshire	shire district	378	4.3	0.35×
268	Wokingham	unitary authority	428	4.2	0.35×
269	Maldon	shire district	172	4.1	0.34×
270	East Hampshire	shire district	319	4.1	0.34×
271	East Riding of Yorkshire	unitary authority	765	4.0	0.34×
272	Wiltshire	unitary authority	1,171	4.0	0.33×
273	Fareham	shire district	256	3.9	0.32×
274	Tewkesbury	shire district	230	3.9	0.32×
275	Lewes	shire district	197	3.9	0.32×
276	Staffordshire Moorlands	shire district	213	3.9	0.32×
277	East Suffolk	shire district	527	3.8	0.32×
278	Wealden	shire district	359	3.6	0.30×
279	North Yorkshire	unitary authority	1,205	3.6	0.30×
280	Waverley	shire district	263	3.4	0.28×
281	Derbyshire Dales	shire district	145	3.4	0.28×
282	Conwy	Welsh unitary authority	202	3.4	0.28×
283	Vale of White Horse	shire district	273	3.4	0.28×
284	Cheshire East	unitary authority	748	3.3	0.28×
285	Cumberland	unitary authority	473	3.3	0.27×
286	Shropshire	unitary authority	587	3.3	0.27×
287	Mid Suffolk	shire district	216	3.1	0.26×
288	Babergh	shire district	182	3.1	0.26×
289	West Suffolk	shire district	323	3.1	0.26×
290	Denbighshire	Welsh unitary authority	157	3.1	0.26×
291	Forest of Dean	shire district	158	3.0	0.25×
292	Carmarthenshire	Welsh unitary authority	304	3.0	0.25×
293	Flintshire	Welsh unitary authority	260	3.0	0.25×
294	North Kesteven	shire district	203	3.0	0.25×
295	King's Lynn and West Norfolk	shire district	247	2.9	0.24×
296	Cornwall	unitary authority	881	2.9	0.24×
297	Cheshire West and Chester	unitary authority	521	2.8	0.23×
298	Gwynedd	Welsh unitary authority	164	2.7	0.23×
299	Westmorland and Furness	unitary authority	316	2.7	0.22×
300	Breckland	shire district	213	2.6	0.22×
301	Isle of Wight	unitary authority	183	2.6	0.21×
302	Herefordshire	unitary authority	277	2.6	0.21×
303	Powys	Welsh unitary authority	185	2.5	0.21×
304	Teignbridge	shire district	176	2.3	0.19×
305	West Devon	shire district	76	2.3	0.19×
306	South Hams	shire district	124	2.3	0.19×
307	Pembrokeshire	Welsh unitary authority	142	2.1	0.17×
308	East Devon	shire district	179	2.1	0.17×
309	Mid Devon	shire district	99	2.1	0.17×
310	South Norfolk	shire district	172	2.0	0.17×
311	Isle of Anglesey	Welsh unitary authority	72	1.9	0.15×
312	Torridge	shire district	71	1.8	0.15×
313	North Devon	shire district	95	1.8	0.15×
314	Ceredigion	Welsh unitary authority	65	1.7	0.14×
315	Broadland	shire district	107	1.3	0.11×
316	North Norfolk	shire district	76	1.3	0.11×

Areas A to Z

A: Adur · Amber Valley · Arun · Ashfield · Ashford
B: Babergh · Barking and Dagenham · Barnet · Barnsley · Basildon · Basingstoke and Deane · Bassetlaw · Bath and North East Somerset · Bedford · Bexley · Birmingham · Blaby · Blackburn with Darwen · Blackpool · Blaenau Gwent · Bolsover · Bolton · Boston · Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole · Bracknell Forest · Bradford · Braintree · Breckland · Brent · Brentwood · Bridgend · Brighton and Hove · Bristol · Broadland · Bromley · Bromsgrove · Broxbourne · Broxtowe · Buckinghamshire · Burnley · Bury
C: Caerphilly · Calderdale · Cambridge · Camden · Cannock Chase · Canterbury · Cardiff · Carmarthenshire · Castle Point · Central Bedfordshire · Ceredigion · Charnwood · Chelmsford · Cheltenham · Cherwell · Cheshire East · Cheshire West and Chester · Chesterfield · Chichester · Chorley · Colchester · Conwy · Cornwall · Cotswold · County Durham · Coventry · Crawley · Croydon · Cumberland
D: Dacorum · Darlington · Dartford · Denbighshire · Derby · Derbyshire Dales · Doncaster · Dorset · Dover · Dudley
E: Ealing · East Cambridgeshire · East Devon · East Hampshire · East Hertfordshire · East Lindsey · East Riding of Yorkshire · East Staffordshire · East Suffolk · Eastbourne · Eastleigh · Elmbridge · Enfield · Epping Forest · Epsom and Ewell · Erewash · Exeter
F: Fareham · Fenland · Flintshire · Folkestone and Hythe · Forest of Dean · Fylde
G: Gateshead · Gedling · Gloucester · Gosport · Gravesham · Great Yarmouth · Greenwich · Guildford · Gwynedd
H: Hackney · Halton · Hammersmith and Fulham · Harborough · Haringey · Harlow · Harrow · Hart · Hartlepool · Hastings · Havant · Havering · Herefordshire · Hertsmere · High Peak · Hillingdon · Hinckley and Bosworth · Horsham · Hounslow · Huntingdonshire · Hyndburn
I: Ipswich · Isle of Anglesey · Isle of Wight · Islington
K: Kensington and Chelsea · King's Lynn and West Norfolk · Kingston upon Hull · Kingston upon Thames · Kirklees · Knowsley
L: Lambeth · Lancaster · Leeds · Leicester · Lewes · Lewisham · Lichfield · Lincoln · Liverpool · Luton
M: Maidstone · Maldon · Malvern Hills · Manchester · Mansfield · Medway · Melton · Merthyr Tydfil · Merton · Mid Devon · Mid Suffolk · Mid Sussex · Middlesbrough · Milton Keynes · Mole Valley · Monmouthshire
N: Neath Port Talbot · New Forest · Newark and Sherwood · Newcastle upon Tyne · Newcastle-under-Lyme · Newham · Newport · North Devon · North East Derbyshire · North East Lincolnshire · North Hertfordshire · North Kesteven · North Lincolnshire · North Norfolk · North Northamptonshire · North Somerset · North Tyneside · North Warwickshire · North West Leicestershire · North Yorkshire · Northumberland · Norwich · Nottingham · Nuneaton and Bedworth
O: Oadby and Wigston · Oldham · Oxford
P: Pembrokeshire · Pendle · Peterborough · Plymouth · Portsmouth · Powys · Preston
R: Reading · Redbridge · Redcar and Cleveland · Redditch · Reigate and Banstead · Rhondda Cynon Taf · Ribble Valley · Richmond upon Thames · Rochdale · Rochford · Rossendale · Rother · Rotherham · Rugby · Runnymede · Rushcliffe · Rushmoor · Rutland
S: Salford · Sandwell · Sefton · Sevenoaks · Sheffield · Shropshire · Slough · Solihull · Somerset · South Cambridgeshire · South Derbyshire · South Gloucestershire · South Hams · South Holland · South Kesteven · South Norfolk · South Oxfordshire · South Ribble · South Staffordshire · South Tyneside · Southampton · Southend-on-Sea · Southwark · Spelthorne · St Albans · St. Helens · Stafford · Staffordshire Moorlands · Stevenage · Stockport · Stockton-on-Tees · Stoke-on-Trent · Stratford-on-Avon · Stroud · Sunderland · Surrey Heath · Sutton · Swale · Swansea · Swindon
T: Tameside · Tamworth · Tandridge · Teignbridge · Telford and Wrekin · Tendring · Test Valley · Tewkesbury · Thanet · Three Rivers · Thurrock · Tonbridge and Malling · Torbay · Torfaen · Torridge · Tower Hamlets · Trafford · Tunbridge Wells
U: Uttlesford
V: Vale of Glamorgan · Vale of White Horse
W: Wakefield · Walsall · Waltham Forest · Wandsworth · Warrington · Warwick · Watford · Waverley · Wealden · Welwyn Hatfield · West Berkshire · West Devon · West Lancashire · West Lindsey · West Northamptonshire · West Oxfordshire · West Suffolk · Westminster · Westmorland and Furness · Wigan · Wiltshire · Winchester · Windsor and Maidenhead · Wirral · Woking · Wokingham · Wolverhampton · Worcester · Worthing · Wrexham · Wychavon · Wyre · Wyre Forest
Y: York

What counts as vehicle crime here

The Home Office's “vehicle offences” group of police recorded crime: aggravated vehicle taking (code 37.2), theft from a vehicle (code 45), theft or unauthorised taking of a motor vehicle (code 48), interfering with a motor vehicle (code 126). Figures are published by Community Safety Partnership and averaged over the two financial years 2024/25 and 2025/26. Offences a force could not assign to a partnership are shared across that force's areas in proportion to their cars.

The denominator is privately kept licensed cars at 2026 Q2 (DfT VEH0125), placed in each authority through the ONS postcode lookup. Company and fleet cars are not in it.

How area enters the 73 Auto insurance estimate

73 Auto analysis, not official data. The insurance estimate turns each area's rate into an index (area rate ÷ England and Wales rate), averaged over the local authorities in your postcode district. It clips the index to 0.5–2, applies it to the collision part of the premium raised to the power 0.94 and to the theft part at power 1, and compares it with the UK-average area, an index of 0.92 (the typical car sits below the national rate because crime is concentrated). Each area page shows the result for the reference driver. It is a model estimate, never a quote.

Limitations

These are crimes recorded by the police, not all crimes: many vehicle thefts from cars go unreported, and recording practice differs between forces.

The rate is per car registered to a keeper in the area, not per car parked there. City centres attract commuters' and visitors' cars, so their rates are high relative to the cars kept there.

Scotland and Northern Ireland are not covered: their recorded crime is not published in a comparable form.

2 authorities with fewer than 10,000 privately kept cars are not listed, because a handful of offences would swing their rate.

See how your area enters a car's insurance estimate

Enter a UK registration, then add your postcode: the estimate uses your postcode district's vehicle-crime index. Your first check is free and shows the vehicle summary and its headline ownership cost. The category-by-category breakdown is part of a paid check.

UK number plate or 17-character VIN

Where these figures come from

Official data: Police recorded crime by Community Safety Partnership, year ending March 2025 and March 2026 — Home Office. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Official data: Licensed vehicles by small area (VEH0125), privately kept cars, 2026 Q2 — Department for Transport. Open Government Licence v3.0.
Official data: Postcode to LSOA to local authority lookup (August 2026) — Office for National Statistics (Open Geography Portal). Open Government Licence v3.0; contains OS data (c) Crown copyright and database right; contains Royal Mail data (c) Royal Mail copyright and database right; contains National Statistics data (c) Crown copyright and database right.
73 Auto analysis: area index and insurance relativities from the Insurance V2 model (insurance-v2.0) — 73 Auto. Our own calculation from the sources above.

Figures labelled as 73 Auto estimates are our own analysis of these sources, set out in the methodology and data sources. To report a factual error, see corrections.