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Crime · Malmesbury
Reported crime in Malmesbury
318 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 52 per 1,000 residents.
Total incidents
318
Rate / 1,000
52
Categories
12
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 109 | 34% |
| Shoplifting | 51 | 16% |
| Anti social behaviour | 51 | 16% |
| Other theft | 29 | 9% |
| Public order | 28 | 9% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 26 | 8% |
| Burglary | 7 | 2% |
| Vehicle crime | 5 | 2% |
| Other crime | 5 | 2% |
| Drugs | 3 | 1% |
| Possession of weapons | 3 | 1% |
| 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 | 15 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 7 | 17 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 109 |
| Shoplifting | 4 | 5 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 8 | 1 | 14 | 51 | ||
| Anti social behaviour | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 8 | 51 |
| Other theft | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 29 | ||||
| Public order | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 28 | |
| Criminal damage and arson | 1 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 26 | |||
| Burglary | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | ||||||||
| Vehicle crime | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |||||||
| Other crime | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||
| Drugs | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Possession of weapons | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | |||||||||
| Theft from the person | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 24 | 25 | 22 | 17 | 18 | 18 | 19 | 36 | 40 | 28 | 35 | 36 | 318 |
FewerMore
police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Malmesbury, Sept 2025 to Aug 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 6,159.