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Crime · Backford Cross
Reported crime in central Backford Cross
919 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 50 per 1,000 residents.
Total incidents
919
Rate / 1,000
50
Categories
13
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 336 | 37% |
| Shoplifting | 133 | 14% |
| Public order | 95 | 10% |
| Anti social behaviour | 83 | 9% |
| Other theft | 70 | 8% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 65 | 7% |
| Vehicle crime | 57 | 6% |
| Drugs | 26 | 3% |
| Burglary | 23 | 3% |
| Other crime | 18 | 2% |
| Possession of weapons | 8 | 1% |
| Robbery | 4 | 0% |
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 0% |
Category by month
| Category | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 25 | 23 | 32 | 32 | 23 | 25 | 35 | 18 | 30 | 28 | 33 | 32 | 336 |
| Shoplifting | 17 | 7 | 15 | 13 | 16 | 8 | 8 | 13 | 14 | 10 | 8 | 4 | 133 |
| Public order | 7 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 9 | 5 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 95 |
| Anti social behaviour | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 13 | 14 | 12 | 83 |
| Other theft | 4 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 5 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 70 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 5 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 7 | 65 |
| Vehicle crime | 3 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 57 |
| Drugs | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 26 | |||
| Burglary | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 23 | ||
| Other crime | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 18 | |||
| Possession of weapons | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | |||||
| Robbery | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | |||||||||
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 79 | 69 | 86 | 76 | 63 | 67 | 70 | 68 | 76 | 86 | 93 | 86 | 919 |
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police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Backford Cross, Sept 2025 to Aug 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 18,429.