Crime in Coventry
Thinking about Coventry? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Coventry, West Midlands, straight from the police and grouped by category.
Counts show where crimes were recorded, not how likely you are to be affected — a busy city centre always shows more than the quieter streets around it. To check a specific area, run its postcode through the crime checker. Comparing nearby? Try birmingham, leicester, nottingham too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Coventry centre
956crimes recorded in July 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 374
- Shoplifting 142
- Other theft 65
- Public order 65
- 10 other categories 310
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences374
- Shoplifting142
- Other theft65
- Public order65
- Criminal damage & arson62
- Vehicle crime48
- Burglary39
- Drugs39
- Anti-social behaviour35
- Theft from the person23
- Robbery21
- Bicycle theft17
- Possession of weapons14
- Other crime12
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Coventry. For a specific neighbourhood, open the crime checker and enter the postcode to centre the results there — with how to read the numbers and where the data comes from.
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Common questions
- Is Coventry a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Coventry for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Coventry crime data a couple of months old?
- Police forces publish to data.police.uk about two to three months in arrears, and it updates monthly, so the latest full month is always slightly behind. We label the month shown.
- Does this cover the whole of Coventry?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Coventry. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.