Crime & community safety

The absence of a safe and secure place in which to live can have an extremely negative impact on physical and emotional health and wellbeing. This report displays data on overall crime and a breakdown of crime types for Norfolk.

Single crime case data have been aggregated for Norfolk and rates are calculated per 1,000 population. 12-month rolling figures use an average of the population monthly figures over the same period. Where the dates for the crime data exceed the latest available date for population estimates, the latest population figure was used for any crime rates after that date (no extrapolating).

Crime rate by type of crime

Crime rates by type for Norfolk for Oct-20 - Sep-21

	Count	Per 1,000	Count	Per 1,000	Count	Per 1,000
	Norfolk		East of England		England
Bicycle theft	860	1	8,082	1.3	65,533	1.2
Burglary	1,879	2.1	19,245	3.1	214,286	3.8
Criminal damage and arson	6,656	7.3	44,593	7.2	417,064	7.4
Drugs	2,164	2.4	16,235	2.6	159,056	2.8
Possession of weapons	522	0.6	3,894	0.6	35,581	0.6
Public order	7,985	8.8	48,257	7.7	433,811	7.7
Robbery	318	0.4	3,595	0.6	49,894	0.9
Shoplifting	2,392	2.6	23,799	3.8	209,327	3.7
Theft from the person	278	0.3	3,259	0.5	56,034	1
Other theft	3,864	4.3	32,951	5.3	316,331	5.6
Vehicle crime	1,549	1.7	30,595	4.9	288,068	5.1
Violence and sexual offences	32,947	36.3	203,987	32.7	1,722,182	30.6
Other crime	2,274	2.5	11,027	1.8	90,372	1.6

Change in the overall crime rate

Rates (per 1,000)

	Norfolk	East of England	England
Oct-19	4.6	6.5	6.9
Nov-19	4.6	6.2	6.7
Dec-19	4.8	6.1	6.5
Jan-20	6.0	6.7	6.9
Feb-20	5.8	6.4	6.5
Mar-20	5.7	6.1	6.2
Apr-20	4.6	4.9	4.9
May-20	5.3	5.6	5.5
Jun-20	5.8	6.1	6.0
Jul-20	6.5	6.6	6.7
Aug-20	6.8	6.8	6.7
Sep-20	6.0	6.4	6.5
Oct-20	6.2	6.3	6.4
Nov-20	5.7	5.9	6.0
Dec-20	5.5	5.5	5.7
Jan-21	4.8	5.0	5.3
Feb-21	4.7	4.9	5.1
Mar-21	5.6	5.9	6.3
Apr-21	5.9	5.9	5.8
May-21	6.6	6.5	6.2
Jun-21	6.8	6.6	6.4
Jul-21	6.2	6.8	6.5
Aug-21	6.0	6.3	6.2
Sep-21	6.3	6.5	6.3

Counts

	Norfolk	East of England	England
Oct-19	4,212	40,357	390,632
Nov-19	4,143	38,893	377,596
Dec-19	4,390	37,792	365,002
Jan-20	5,409	41,636	385,960
Feb-20	5,219	40,025	364,242
Mar-20	5,145	37,949	346,764
Apr-20	4,147	30,373	273,370
May-20	4,792	35,075	311,301
Jun-20	5,270	38,065	337,895
Jul-20	5,864	41,148	377,858
Aug-20	6,159	42,243	377,375
Sep-20	5,473	39,752	365,036
Oct-20	5,582	39,247	362,740
Nov-20	5,158	36,829	340,233
Dec-20	4,965	34,253	321,051
Jan-21	4,361	31,117	295,937
Feb-21	4,237	30,639	289,395
Mar-21	5,073	36,509	351,944
Apr-21	5,358	36,993	324,465
May-21	5,944	40,680	348,291
Jun-21	6,200	41,007	357,696
Jul-21	5,642	42,223	365,664
Aug-21	5,473	39,538	348,524
Sep-21	5,695	40,484	351,599

Anti-social behaviour rate

Rates (per 1,000)

	Norfolk	East of England	England
Oct-19	1.2	1.5	1.8
Nov-19	1.0	1.3	1.5
Dec-19	1.1	1.2	1.3
Jan-20	1.2	1.3	1.5
Feb-20	1.0	1.3	1.4
Mar-20	1.4	1.5	1.8
Apr-20	2.3	2.2	3.6
May-20	2.4	2.3	3.7
Jun-20	1.6	2.2	2.9
Jul-20	1.6	2.3	2.4
Aug-20	1.5	2.2	2.5
Sep-20	1.1	1.7	2.1
Oct-20	1.1	1.7	2.3
Nov-20	0.9	1.8	2.2
Dec-20	0.8	1.6	1.9
Jan-21	0.8	1.7	2.2
Feb-21	0.8	1.7	2.0
Mar-21	0.9	1.9	2.3
Apr-21	1.0	1.8	2.1
May-21	1.0	1.7	1.9
Jun-21	1.2	1.9	2.0
Jul-21	1.1	1.7	1.9
Aug-21	1.1	1.6	1.7
Sep-21	1.1	1.5	1.5

Counts

	Norfolk	East of England	England
Oct-19	1,129	9,547	99,244
Nov-19	922	8,390	84,535
Dec-19	955	7,692	74,753
Jan-20	1,043	8,146	82,112
Feb-20	864	7,857	78,759
Mar-20	1,259	9,590	101,532
Apr-20	2,113	13,789	203,363
May-20	2,155	14,114	206,067
Jun-20	1,425	13,456	163,119
Jul-20	1,434	14,181	137,076
Aug-20	1,388	13,548	141,456
Sep-20	970	10,792	120,536
Oct-20	954	10,687	127,405
Nov-20	818	11,387	123,762
Dec-20	739	9,729	106,979
Jan-21	697	10,337	122,202
Feb-21	745	10,258	113,916
Mar-21	798	11,515	129,149
Apr-21	894	10,914	117,475
May-21	924	10,830	105,232
Jun-21	1,087	11,735	112,989
Jul-21	1,034	10,860	107,772
Aug-21	1,014	9,718	95,875
Sep-21	955	9,032	82,569

Norfolk - Crime - UTLA

Norfolk - Crime - UTLA - Norfolk