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
585crimes recorded in July 2026
- Violence & sexual offences 198
- Anti-social behaviour 151
- Shoplifting 57
- Public order 48
- 10 other categories 131
Every category
- Violence & sexual offences198
- Anti-social behaviour151
- Shoplifting57
- Public order48
- Criminal damage & arson35
- Other theft16
- Burglary15
- Theft from the person14
- Vehicle crime14
- Other crime11
- Robbery9
- Drugs8
- Bicycle theft5
- Possession of weapons4
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.