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Crime · Wells
Reported crime in Wells
1,035 incidents logged with the police in the past 12 months, around 93 per 1,000 residents.
Total incidents
1,035
Rate / 1,000
93
Categories
14
Months on file
12
By category
| Category | Incidents | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 391 | 38% |
| Shoplifting | 148 | 14% |
| Anti social behaviour | 141 | 14% |
| Public order | 116 | 11% |
| Criminal damage and arson | 76 | 7% |
| Other theft | 47 | 5% |
| Burglary | 36 | 3% |
| Robbery | 24 | 2% |
| Other crime | 17 | 2% |
| Vehicle crime | 16 | 2% |
| Drugs | 11 | 1% |
| Bicycle theft | 6 | 1% |
| Possession of weapons | 5 | 0% |
| Theft from the person | 1 | 0% |
Category by month
| Category | Jul | Aug | Sept | Oct | Nov | Dec | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Violence and sexual offences | 32 | 55 | 21 | 34 | 40 | 36 | 41 | 23 | 29 | 23 | 22 | 35 | 391 |
| Shoplifting | 9 | 10 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 10 | 13 | 9 | 11 | 148 |
| Anti social behaviour | 8 | 17 | 5 | 14 | 12 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 15 | 8 | 9 | 24 | 141 |
| Public order | 7 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 12 | 6 | 13 | 116 |
| Criminal damage and arson | 9 | 11 | 3 | 8 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 7 | 76 | |
| Other theft | 8 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 47 | |
| Burglary | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 36 |
| Robbery | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 24 | |
| Other crime | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 17 | ||||
| Vehicle crime | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 16 | ||
| Drugs | 2 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 11 | |||||||
| Bicycle theft | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 6 | ||||||||
| Possession of weapons | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||
| Theft from the person | 1 | 1 | |||||||||||
| Total | 78 | 118 | 55 | 80 | 108 | 101 | 98 | 68 | 91 | 80 | 59 | 99 | 1035 |
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police.uk street-level crime for the Census neighbourhoods (LSOAs) covering Wells, Jul 2025 to Jun 2026. The rate uses those neighbourhoods’ Census 2021 population of 11,138.