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Crime · Horncastle
Reported crime in Horncastle
563 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 75 per 1,000 residents.
Total incidents
563
Rate / 1,000
75
Categories
14
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 223 | 40% |
| Anti social behaviour | 103 | 18% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 49 | 9% |
| Shoplifting | 44 | 8% |
| Other theft | 36 | 6% |
| Public order | 21 | 4% |
| Vehicle crime | 21 | 4% |
| Burglary | 18 | 3% |
| Other crime | 18 | 3% |
| Drugs | 14 | 2% |
| Possession of weapons | 8 | 1% |
| Robbery | 5 | 1% |
| Bicycle theft | 2 | 0% |
| Theft from the person | 1 | 0% |
Category by month
| Category | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 21 | 11 | 22 | 23 | 10 | 21 | 26 | 20 | 15 | 16 | 21 | 17 | 223 |
| Anti social behaviour | 8 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 3 | 9 | 10 | 10 | 14 | 14 | 103 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 4 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 49 | |
| Shoplifting | 2 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 44 | ||
| Other theft | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 36 |
| Public order | 3 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 21 | |||
| Vehicle crime | 3 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 21 | ||||
| Burglary | 2 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 18 | ||||
| Other crime | 3 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 18 | |||
| Drugs | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 14 | |||||
| Possession of weapons | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 8 | ||||||
| Robbery | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 1 | 2 | ||||||||||
| Theft from the person | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 41 | 37 | 47 | 65 | 30 | 54 | 46 | 44 | 42 | 42 | 59 | 56 | 563 |
FewerMore
police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Horncastle, Sept 2025 to Aug 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 7,553.