Crime in Swindon
Thinking about Swindon? This is the recent street-level crime recorded around the centre of Swindon, Wiltshire, 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 bath, bristol, oxford too.
Last updated: August 2026
Recorded crime near Swindon centre
553crimes recorded in September 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 191
- Anti-social behaviour 118
- Shoplifting 59
- Public order 43
- 10 other categories 142
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences191
- Anti-social behaviour118
- Shoplifting59
- Public order43
- Criminal damage & arson30
- Bicycle theft18
- Other theft17
- Burglary16
- Vehicle crime16
- Drugs13
- Robbery12
- Other crime9
- Theft from the person6
- Possession of weapons5
This is the recorded crime around the centre of Swindon. 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 Swindon a safe place to live?
- No single number answers that. The figures here show recorded crime near the centre of Swindon for the latest month available. For the areas you're actually considering, compare a few specific postcodes in the crime checker.
- Why is the Swindon 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 Swindon?
- It's the crime recorded within about a mile of the centre of Swindon. For a specific neighbourhood, enter its postcode in the crime checker to centre the results there.