Crime in Reading
Thinking about Reading? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Reading, Berkshire, 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 london, oxford, swindon too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Reading centre
830crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 248
- Shoplifting 175
- Other theft 92
- Public order 81
- 10 other categories 234
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences248
- Shoplifting175
- Other theft92
- Public order81
- Anti-social behaviour68
- Criminal damage & arson42
- Vehicle crime30
- Bicycle theft20
- Burglary19
- Drugs19
- Robbery15
- Theft from the person12
- Other crime6
- Possession of weapons3
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Reading. 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 Reading a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Reading for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Reading 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 Reading?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Reading. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.