Crime in Leicester
Thinking about Leicester? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Leicester, Leicestershire, 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 nottingham, derby, birmingham too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Leicester centre
1,639crimes recorded in July 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 487
- Shoplifting 221
- Public order 211
- Anti-social behaviour 202
- 10 other categories 518
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences487
- Shoplifting221
- Public order211
- Anti-social behaviour202
- Criminal damage & arson111
- Other theft103
- Drugs75
- Vehicle crime59
- Burglary52
- Robbery31
- Possession of weapons24
- Theft from the person23
- Bicycle theft22
- Other crime18
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Leicester. 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 Leicester a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Leicester for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Leicester 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 Leicester?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Leicester. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.