Crime in Nottingham
Thinking about Nottingham? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, 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 derby, leicester, sheffield too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Nottingham centre
1,760crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 503
- Shoplifting 286
- Anti-social behaviour 248
- Other theft 141
- 10 other categories 582
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences503
- Shoplifting286
- Anti-social behaviour248
- Other theft141
- Public order133
- Criminal damage & arson80
- Drugs73
- Burglary64
- Vehicle crime64
- Robbery59
- Theft from the person42
- Possession of weapons30
- Other crime21
- Bicycle theft16
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Nottingham. 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 Nottingham a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Nottingham for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Nottingham 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 Nottingham?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Nottingham. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.